1 The GNU gettext package is the first full featured package
2 directed to NLS support in the GNU packages. It has its roots in the
3 GNU C Library development and of course the (never officially
4 released) GNU locale package, mostly written by Jim Meyering.
5 Therefore a lot of people participated in the process of creating this
8 Written in April-June 1995 by
9 Ulrich Drepper drepper@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de
11 Special thanks to François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>, who did a
12 major part of the testing, provided the Emacs PO mode, and wrote major
15 Peter Miller <millerp@canb.auug.org.au> invested a lot of his time in making
16 gettext usable in other GNU projects and wrote the msgmerge, msgcmp, and
19 Guido Flohr <guido@imperia.net> wrote the Perl backend of xgettext and
20 the libintl-perl package.
22 Gora Mohanty <gora_mohanty@yahoo.co.in> wrote the tutorial.
24 Thanks to all of the following for their valuable
25 hints/fixes/discussions/contributions:
27 Aaron Stone aaron@serendipity.cx
28 Aaron Williams aaron_williams@net.com
29 Abel Cheung abelcheung@gmail.com
30 Adam Heath doogie@debian.org
31 Adrian Bunk bunk@fs.tum.de
32 Akim Demaille akim@epita.fr
33 Alain Bench messtic@oreka.com
34 Alain Guibert derogaton+bggt@oreka.com, alguibert@free.fr
35 Albert Chin-A-Young china@thewrittenword.com
36 Alexander V. Lukyanov lav@yars.free.net
37 Alexander Turbov AVTurbov@gwise.eltech.ru
38 Alexandre Duret-Lutz aduret@enst.fr
39 Alfred M. Szmidt ams@kemisten.nu
40 Alfredo alfredio@ciaoweb.it
41 Amos Batto amosbatto@yahoo.com
42 Andreas Buening andreas.buening@nexgo.de
43 Andreas Fischer a.fischer@asentics.de
44 Andreas Schwab schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
45 Andrew Suffield asuffield@debian.org
46 Andrew V. Samoilov kai@cmail.ru
47 Andrew Walrond andrew@walrond.org
48 Andrew Zabolotny zap@cobra.ru
49 Andries Brouwer andries.brouwer@cwi.nl
50 Andriy Gapon avg@icyb.net.ua
51 Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz arekm@pld-linux.org
52 Arpad Biro biro_arpad@yahoo.com
53 Artem Vakhitov temcat@mail.ru
54 Arto C. Nirkko anirkko@insel.ch
55 Asgeir Frimannsson asgeirf@redhat.com
56 A. Sopicki a.sopicki@gmx.de
57 ? atras-ch@mail.msiu.ru
58 Bang Jun Young bangjy@nownuri.nowcom.co.kr
59 Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com
60 Behdad Esfahbod behdad@cs.toronto.edu
61 Ben Elliston bje@redhat.com
62 Benoît Sibaud benoit.sibaud@rd.francetelecom.com
63 Bernard Massot bmassot@free.fr
64 Bernhard Herzog bernhard@users.sourceforge.net
66 Bill Perry wmperry@aventail.com
67 Bjoern Voigt bjoern@cs.tu-berlin.de
68 Bob Rossi bob_rossi@cox.net
69 Bram Moolenaar bram@moolenaar.net
70 Bruno Haible haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de
71 Carlo Wood carlo@alinoe.com
72 Carlos Perelló Marín carlos@gnome.org
73 Cary Farah cfarah@jjkeller.com
74 Charles Wilson cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
75 Chris Pickett chris.pickett@mail.mcgill.ca
76 Chris Zubrzycki beren@mac.com
77 Christian Casteyde casteyde.christian@free.fr
78 Christian Neumair chris@gnome-de.org
79 Christian von Roques roques@pond.sub.org
80 Christoph Thielecke u15119@hs-harz.de
81 Christopher Seip chris.seip@hp.com
82 Chuck Berg chuckhberg@yahoo.com
83 Chusslove Illich (Часлав Илић) caslav.ilic@gmx.net
84 Claudio Fontana claudio@gnu.org
85 Clytie Siddall clytie@riverland.net.au
86 Colin Marquardt colin@marquardt-home.de
87 Colin Watson cjwatson@debian.org
88 Crispin Flowerday cflowerday@zeus.com
89 Dalibor Topic robilad@kaffe.org
90 Daniel Burrows dburrows@debian.org
91 Daniel Leidert daniel.leidert@wgdd.de
92 Daniel Schepler schepler@math.berkeley.edu
93 Danilo Šegan (Данило Шеган) danilo@gnome.org
94 Dave Patton dpatton@confluence.org
95 David Faure faure@kde.org
96 David Fraser davidf@sjsoft.com
97 Denis Barbier barbier@linuxfr.org
98 Denis Excoffier Denis.Excoffier@free.fr
99 Deniz Akkus deniz@arayan.com
100 Dennis Bjorklund db@zigo.dhs.org
101 Dennis Schridde devurandom@gmx.net
102 Derek Clegg derek_clegg@next.com
103 Derek Robert Price derek@ximbiot.com
104 Dwayne Bailey dwayne@obsidian.co.za
105 Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
106 Ed Avis avised@kbcfp.com
107 Eddy Petrişor eddy.petrisor@gmail.com
108 Edmund Grimley Evans edmundo@rano.org
109 Egmont Koblinger egmont@uhulinux.hu
110 Eli Zaretskii eliz@is.elta.co.il
111 Enrico Scholz enrico.scholz@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
112 Enrique Melero Gómez justine@iprolink.ch
113 Eric Backus ericb@lsid.hp.com
114 Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
115 Eric Botcazou ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr
116 Erik Sigra sigra@home.se
117 Farzaneh Sarafraz farzaneh@farsiweb.info
118 Fatih Demir kabalak@gtranslator.org
119 Felipe Contreras al593181@mail.mty.itesm.mx
120 Felix Natter f.natter@ndh.net
121 Finlay Dobbie finlay.dobbie@gmail.com
122 Francesco Potortì pot@fly.cnuce.cnr.it
123 Frank Donahoe fdonahoe@wilkes1.wilkes.edu
124 Frédéric L. W. Meunier 0@pervalidus.tk
125 Gabor Kelemen kelemeng@gnome.hu
126 Gabriele Stilli superenzima@libero.it
127 Gaëtan Frenoy gaetan@frenoy.net
128 Gary V. Vaughan gary@gnu.org
129 Gerald Combs gerald@ethereal.com
130 Glenn Popelka gpp@mail.gpopelka.com
131 Golubev I. N. gin@mo.msk.ru
132 Greg McGary gkm@magilla.cichlid.com
133 Göran Uddeborg gvran@uddeborg.pp.se
134 Hagen Fritsch itooktheredpill@gmx.de
135 Haibin Zhang dragzhb@yahoo.com.cn
136 Han Boetes han@mijncomputer.nl
137 Hans Ulrich Niedermann debian@n-dimensional.de
138 Henry Nelson netb@yuba.ne.jp
139 H. J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
140 Hrvoje Niksic hniksic@srce.hr
141 Igor Brezac igor@ipass.net
142 I. Thomas Cundiff tcundiff@eclipse.net
143 Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen joukj@hrem.stm.tudelft.nl
144 Jakub Bogusz qboosh@pld-linux.org
145 Jakub Jelinek jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz
146 James A Baker jabaker@mac.com
147 James Henstridge james@daa.com.au
148 James Youngman jay@gnu.org
149 Jan Djärv jan.djarv@mbox200.swipnet.se
150 Jan-Marek Glogowski glogow@stud.fbi.fh-darmstadt.de
151 Jan Schneider jan@horde.org
152 Jason Keltz jas@cs.yorku.ca
153 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña jfs@computer.org
154 Jeff Bonggren jbon@cfl.rr.com
155 Jeff Rizzo riz@netbsd.org
156 Jens A. Tkotz jens@peino.de
157 Jens Petersen petersen@redhat.com
158 Jim Meyering meyering@na-net.ornl.gov
159 Jochen Hein jochen@jochen.org
160 Joel Reicher joel@panacea.null.org
161 Jörg Schilling schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de
162 Joey Hess joeyh@debian.org
163 Jonas Koch Bentzen jonas@understroem.dk
164 Joosep-Georg Järvemaa joosep-georg.jarvemaa_4898@eesti.ee
165 Jorn Baayen jbaayen@dds.nl
166 Josep Puigdemont baldrick@terra.es
167 Joshua R. Poulson jrp@plaza.ds.adp.com
168 Jouko Orava joorava@pcu.helsinki.fi
169 Jozef Riha jose1711@gmail.com
170 Juan Manuel Guerrero st001906@hrz1.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de
171 Jürgen A. Erhard jae+debian@jerhard.org
172 Julien Chiron julien.chiron@univ.u-3mrs.fr
173 Jun Sawataishi jsawa@attglobal.net
174 Kalle Niemitalo tosi@ees2.oulu.fi
175 Karl Berry kb@cs.umb.edu
176 Karl Chen quarl@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu
177 Karl Eichwalder ke@suse.de
178 Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu
179 Kenichi Handa handa@etl.go.jp
180 Ken Y. Clark kclark@logsoft.com
181 Kevin Ryde user42@zip.com.au
182 Kingpin mthurn@copper.dulles.tasc.com
183 Kiyotaka Sakai ksakai@isr.co.jp
184 Kouichi Hashikawa z01a7ksy@cs.ecip.tohoku.ac.jp
185 Larry Schwimmer rosebud@cyclone.stanford.edu
186 Lars Hecking lhecking@nmrc.ie
187 Laurent Bourbeau bourbeau@progiciels-bpi.ca
188 Len Makin len@hpc.csiro.au
189 Leonard den Ottolander leonard@den.ottolander.nl
190 Leonardo Fontenelle leo.fontenelle@gmail.com
191 Liu Garfield jackliu9999@hotmail.com
192 Lorenzo Gil Sanchez lgs@sicem.biz
193 Luke Schierer lschiere@rackspace.com
194 Maciej W. Rozycki macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl
195 Mads Martin Joergensen mmj@suse.de
196 Marc Prior MarcPrior@compuserve.com
197 Marcel Telka marcel@telka.sk
198 Marcus Daniels marcus@sysc.pdx.edu
199 Marcus Meissner meissner@suse.de
200 Marin Purgar pmc@asgard.hr
201 Marius Schamschula mschamschula@gmail.com
202 Mark A. Wicks mwicks@kettering.edu
203 Mark D. Baushke mdb@cvshome.org
204 Mark Detrick Mark.Detrick@mcdata.com
205 Mark Eichin eichin@thok.org
206 Mark Junker mjscod@gmx.de
207 Martin Mokrejš mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz
208 Martin Pitt mpitt@debian.org
209 Martin Quinson martin.quinson@ens-lyon.fr
210 Martin v. Löwis martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de
211 Matt Dreezer matthew.dreezer@edl.uk.eds.com
212 Matthew McGillis matthew@jenika.com
213 Matthias Clasen mclasen@redhat.com
214 Mattias Ellert mattias.ellert@tsl.uu.se
215 Matthias Kiefer kiefer@kde.org
216 Max de Mendizabal max@acer.com.mx
217 Michael C. Toren mct@toren.net
218 Michael Opdenacker m-opdenacker@ti.com
219 Michael Schloh von Bennewitz michael.schloh@cw.com
220 Michael Stather michaelstather@nuzi.de
221 Michal Černoevič Michal.Cernoevic@pvt.cz
222 Michel Robitaille robitail@iro.umontreal.ca
223 Michelle Konzack linux4michelle@freenet.de
224 Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
225 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann mne@mosaic-ag.com
227 Nelson H. F. Beebe beebe@math.utah.edu
228 Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
229 Nicolas François nicolas.francois@centraliens.net
230 Niki Waibel niki.waibel@newlogic.com
231 Nils Magnus Larsgard nmlarsgaard@atmel.no
232 Nils Naumann naumann@unileoben.ac.at
233 Nina Kusnetsova nina@ns.kinetics.nsc.ru
234 Noah Friedman friedman@splode.com
235 Noah Slater nslater@gmail.com
236 Olly Betts olly@survex.com
237 O'Riva oriva@earthlink.net
238 Owen Taylor otaylor@redhat.com
239 Pablo Saratxaga pablo@mandrakesoft.com
240 Paolo Bonzini bonzini@gnu.org
241 Paul D. Smith psmith@gnu.org
242 Paul Eggert eggert@twinsun.com
243 Paul Jarc prj@po.cwru.edu
244 Paul Martinolich martinol@nrlssc.navy.mil
245 Pavel Roskin proski@gnu.org
246 Pekka Järveläinen pj@csc.fi
247 Pepa cerna.zelva@seznam.cz
248 Perry Rapp prapp@erols.com, lifelines_3_0_18@hotmail.com
249 Perry Smith pedz@easesoftware.com
250 Peter Breitenlohner peb@mppmu.mpg.de
251 Pierre pierre42d@9online.fr
252 Philipp Thomas pthomas@suse.de
253 Primoz Peterlin primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si
254 Rafał Maszkowski rzm@icm.edu.pl
255 Ralf Corsepius rc040203@freenet.de
256 Ralf Menzel menzel@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de
257 Ralf Wildenhues Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de
258 Raphaël Zhou xzhou@tlmcom.fr
259 Recai Oktaş roktas@omu.edu.tr
260 Reinout van Schouwen reinout@cs.vu.nl
261 Rhys Weatherley rweather@zip.com.au
262 Richard Lloyd richard.lloyd@connectinternetsolutions.com
263 Richard S. Blake blakers@presence-group.com
264 Richard Stallman rms@gnu.org
265 Rob Landley rob@landley.net
266 Rob Leslie rob@mars.org
267 Robert Millan rmh@aybabtu.com
268 Robert Vock RobertVock@gmx.de
269 Roberto Bagnara bagnara@cs.unipr.it
270 Rodrigo Stulzer Lopes rodrigo@conectiva.com.br
271 Roger Leigh rl117@york.ac.uk
272 Roland McGrath roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu
273 Ron Lee ron@debian.org
274 Roozbeh Pournader roozbeh@sharif.edu
275 Ross Golder ross@golder.org
276 Ryan Anderson ryan@autoweb.net
277 Ryan Schmidt gettext-2007b@ryandesign.com
278 Sakai Kiyotaka ksakai@netwk.ntt-at.co.jp
279 Sam Hocevar sam@zoy.org
280 Sam Steingold sds@gnu.org
281 Santiago Vila Doncel sanvila@unex.es
282 Sebastian Günther sguenther@gmx.de
283 Sergey Poznyakoff gray@mirddin.farlep.net
284 Sergio Talens-Oliag sto@debian.org
285 Simon Josefsson jas@extundo.com
286 Simon Watts swatts@ngms.eu.com
287 Simos Xenitellis simos74@gmx.net
288 Stanislav Brabec sbrabec@suse.cz
289 Stanislav Visnovsky visnovsky@nenya.ms.mff.cuni.cz
290 Stefan Hundhammer sh@suse.de
291 Stefan Kost kost@imn.htwk-leipzig.de
292 Stefan Kowski stefan.kowski@parks-informatik.de
293 Stefan Nordhausen nordhaus@informatik.hu-berlin.de
294 Steffen Macke sdteffen@gmail.com
295 Stepan Kasal kasal@math.cas.cz
296 Stephan Kulow coolo@kde.org
297 Stephane Matamontero stephane.matamontero@gemodek.de
298 Stephen Cartwright sgcartwr@ucalgary.ca
299 Stephen Gildea gildea@stop.mail-abuse.org
300 Steven Edwards Steven_Ed4153@yahoo.com
301 Svante Seleborg svante@axantum.com
302 Sven Joachim sven_joachim@web.de
303 Sven Utcke utcke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
304 Sylvain Beucler beuc@gnu.org
305 Thomas E. Dickey dickey@clark.net
306 Thomas Vander Stichele thomas@apestaart.org
307 Thorsten Kukuk kukuk@suse.de
308 Thorsten Maerz torte@netztorte.de
309 Tim Mooney mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.nodak.edu
310 Tim Van Holder tim.van.holder@pandora.be
311 Tom Tromey tromey@cygnus.com
312 Tommy Johansson tommy@kanalen.org
313 Tor Lillqvist tml@iki.fi
314 Trond Eivind Glomsrød teg@redhat.com
315 Uwe Ohse uwe@tirka.gun.de
316 Vaclav Haisman V.Haisman@sh.cvut.cz
317 Valery Beaud valery.beaud@art.alcatel.fr
318 Vera Mickael vera.mickael@free.fr
319 Veronica Loell info@nakawe.se
320 Vincent Torri vtorri@univ-evry.fr
321 Volodymyr M. Lisivka lvm@mystery.lviv.net
322 Wang Jian lark@linux.net.cn
323 Warren L Dodge warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com
324 Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
325 Werner Lemberg wl@gnu.org
326 Wesley J. Landaker wjl@icecavern.net
327 William J Poser wjposer@ldc.upenn.edu
328 Wojciech Polak polak@gnu.org
329 Xiong Jiang jxiong@offtopic.org
330 Yann Dirson ydirson@altern.org
331 Yves Codet ycodet@club-internet.fr
334 Thanks to all members of the translation teams for the different