Message-Id: <200007071849.OAA19380@delorie.com>
From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero" <ST001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De>
Organization: Darmstadt University of Technology
To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 20:12:12 +0200
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU gettext-0.10.35
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This is a port of GNU Gettext 0.10.35 to MSDOS/DJGPP.

     GNU Gettext provides a library and the tools needed to internationalize
     your programs. Please refer to the info docs for further information about
     NLS (national language support) and to the file ABOUT-NLS, located in the
     top srcdir of gettext, to see which GNU packages offers NLS.

     You can download the binaries,docs and sources from SimtelNET and mirrors as:
       ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/gtxt035b.zip
       ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/gtxt035d.zip
       ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/gtxt035s.zip

     The DJGPP specific changes are the followings:
     1) The conflict existing between the gettext function from DJGPP's libc.a
        defined in conio.h and the gettext function from libintl.a has been
        removed. The gettext() stub in intl-comp.c has been defined out and
        a macro, that will expand to gettext__, has been introduced in intlh_inst.in
        (libintl.h when installed in $DJDIR/include).
        The gettext function is now available as gettext or gettext__.
     2) xgettext will recognise gettext__ as new keyword.
     3) All other changes concern the BINARY/TEXT file issue, path separator
        (semi-colon instead of colon) issue and the directory separator issue.
        All programs that read text files (like the .po files) will read and
        write in binary mode. This should prevent possible difficulties with
        embedded Cntl-Z and CR caracters in multi-byte strings. MSDOS-style EOL
        (CR/LF) in text files will be converted internally into UNIX-style EOL.
        Some minor modifications to the files in tests subdirectory
        to get them working with plain DOS.
        All changes I have done against the original GNU distribution
        are documented in the diffs file stored in the DJGPP subdir of
        the source package.

     4) This package contains all needed files to get NLS support for the
        following DJGPP ports:
          bison-1.28 (bsn128s.zip)
          fileutils-3.16 (fil316s.zip)
          grep-2.4 (grep24s.zip)
          recode-3.5 (rcode35s.zip)
          sh-utils-2.0i (shl20i.zip)
          tar-1.12a (tar112as.zip)
          texinfo-4.0 (txi40s.zip)
          textutils-2.0 (txt20s.zip)

        See section #5 in the readme file for further information.
        Apart from gtxt035b.zip *and* gtxt035s.zip you *must* also
        download rcode35b.zip if you want to implement NLS support
        for one of those packages.
        rcode35b.zip is available at:
          ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/rcode35b.zip

     Of course you can expect that the programs of this package talk to you
     in your mother tongue, if supported.


     Send suggestions and bug-reports to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or djgpp AT delorie DOT com