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 Alex Henrie alexhenrie24@gmail.com
37 Alexander Potashev aspotashev@gmail.com
38 Alexander V. Lukyanov lav@yars.free.net
39 Alexander Turbov AVTurbov@gwise.eltech.ru
40 Alexandre Duret-Lutz aduret@enst.fr
41 Alfred M. Szmidt ams@kemisten.nu
42 Alfredo alfredio@ciaoweb.it
43 Amos Batto amosbatto@yahoo.com
44 Andreas Buening andreas.buening@nexgo.de
45 Andreas Fischer a.fischer@asentics.de
46 Andreas Schwab schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
47 Andreas Stricker astricker@futurelab.ch
48 Andrew Suffield asuffield@debian.org
49 Andrew V. Samoilov kai@cmail.ru
50 Andrew Walrond andrew@walrond.org
51 Andrew Zabolotny zap@cobra.ru
52 Andries Brouwer andries.brouwer@cwi.nl
53 Andriy Gapon avg@icyb.net.ua
54 Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz arekm@pld-linux.org
55 Arpad Biro biro_arpad@yahoo.com
56 Artem Vakhitov temcat@mail.ru
57 Arto C. Nirkko anirkko@insel.ch
58 Asgeir Frimannsson asgeirf@redhat.com
59 A. Sopicki a.sopicki@gmx.de
60 ? atras-ch@mail.msiu.ru
61 Bang Jun Young bangjy@nownuri.nowcom.co.kr
62 Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com
63 Behdad Esfahbod behdad@cs.toronto.edu
64 Ben Elliston bje@redhat.com
65 Benno Schulenberg bensberg@justemail.net
66 Benoît Sibaud benoit.sibaud@rd.francetelecom.com
67 Bernard Massot bmassot@free.fr
68 Bernhard Herzog bernhard@users.sourceforge.net
69 Bernhard Voelker mail@bernhard-voelker.de
71 Bill Perry wmperry@aventail.com
72 Bjoern Voigt bjoern@cs.tu-berlin.de
73 Bob Rossi bob_rossi@cox.net
74 Bram Moolenaar bram@moolenaar.net
75 Bruno Haible haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de
76 Carl Fürstenberg azatoth@gmail.com
77 Carlo Wood carlo@alinoe.com
78 Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
79 Carlos Perelló Marín carlos@gnome.org
80 Cary Farah cfarah@jjkeller.com
81 Charles Wilson cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
82 Chris Pickett chris.pickett@mail.mcgill.ca
83 Chris Zubrzycki beren@mac.com
84 Christian Casteyde casteyde.christian@free.fr
85 Christian Neumair chris@gnome-de.org
86 Christian von Roques roques@pond.sub.org
87 Christoph Thielecke u15119@hs-harz.de
88 Christopher Seip chris.seip@hp.com
89 Chuck Berg chuckhberg@yahoo.com
90 Chusslove Illich (Часлав Илић) caslav.ilic@gmx.net
91 Claudio Fontana claudio@gnu.org
92 Clytie Siddall clytie@riverland.net.au
93 Colin Marquardt colin@marquardt-home.de
94 Colin Watson cjwatson@debian.org
95 Crispin Flowerday cflowerday@zeus.com
96 Daiki Ueno ueno@gnu.org
97 Dalibor Topic robilad@kaffe.org
98 Daniel Burrows dburrows@debian.org
99 Daniel Leidert daniel.leidert@wgdd.de
100 Daniel Schepler schepler@math.berkeley.edu
101 Danilo Šegan (Данило Шеган) danilo@gnome.org
102 Dave Patton dpatton@confluence.org
103 David Faure faure@kde.org
104 David Fraser davidf@sjsoft.com
105 Denis Barbier barbier@linuxfr.org
106 Denis Excoffier Denis.Excoffier@free.fr
107 Deniz Akkus deniz@arayan.com
108 Dennis Bjorklund db@zigo.dhs.org
109 Dennis Schridde devurandom@gmx.net
110 Derek Clegg derek_clegg@next.com
111 Derek Robert Price derek@ximbiot.com
112 Dwayne Bailey dwayne@obsidian.co.za
113 Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
114 Ed Avis avised@kbcfp.com
115 Eddy Petrişor eddy.petrisor@gmail.com
116 Edmund Grimley Evans edmundo@rano.org
117 Egmont Koblinger egmont@uhulinux.hu
118 Eli Zaretskii eliz@is.elta.co.il
119 Enrico Scholz enrico.scholz@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
120 Enrique Melero Gómez justine@iprolink.ch
121 Eric Backus ericb@lsid.hp.com
122 Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
123 Eric Botcazou ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr
124 Erik Sigra sigra@home.se
125 Farzaneh Sarafraz farzaneh@farsiweb.info
126 Fatih Demir kabalak@gtranslator.org
127 Felipe Contreras al593181@mail.mty.itesm.mx
128 Felix Natter f.natter@ndh.net
129 Finlay Dobbie finlay.dobbie@gmail.com
130 Francesco Potortì pot@fly.cnuce.cnr.it
131 Frank Donahoe fdonahoe@wilkes1.wilkes.edu
132 Frédéric L. W. Meunier 0@pervalidus.tk
133 Gabor Kelemen kelemeng@gnome.hu
134 Gabriele Stilli superenzima@libero.it
135 Gaëtan Frenoy gaetan@frenoy.net
136 Gary V. Vaughan gary@gnu.org
137 Gerald Combs gerald@ethereal.com
138 Glenn Popelka gpp@mail.gpopelka.com
139 Golubev I. N. gin@mo.msk.ru
140 Greg McGary gkm@magilla.cichlid.com
141 Göran Uddeborg gvran@uddeborg.pp.se
142 Guillem Jover guillem@hadrons.org
143 Hagen Fritsch itooktheredpill@gmx.de
144 Haibin Zhang dragzhb@yahoo.com.cn
145 Han Boetes han@mijncomputer.nl
146 Hanno Boeck hanno@gentoo.org
147 Hans Ulrich Niedermann debian@n-dimensional.de
148 Henry Nelson netb@yuba.ne.jp
149 H. J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
150 Hrvoje Niksic hniksic@srce.hr
151 Igor Brezac igor@ipass.net
152 Ivailo xakepa10@gmail.com
153 I. Thomas Cundiff tcundiff@eclipse.net
154 Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen joukj@hrem.stm.tudelft.nl
155 Jakub Bogusz qboosh@pld-linux.org
156 Jakub Jelinek jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz
157 Jakub Wilk jwilk@debian.org
158 James A Baker jabaker@mac.com
159 James Henstridge james@daa.com.au
160 James Youngman jay@gnu.org
161 Jan Djärv jan.djarv@mbox200.swipnet.se
162 Jan-Marek Glogowski glogow@stud.fbi.fh-darmstadt.de
163 Jan Schneider jan@horde.org
164 Jason Keltz jas@cs.yorku.ca
165 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña jfs@computer.org
166 Javier Jardón jjardon@gnome.org
167 Jeff Bonggren jbon@cfl.rr.com
168 Jeff Rizzo riz@netbsd.org
169 Jens A. Tkotz jens@peino.de
170 Jens Petersen petersen@redhat.com
171 Jesper Fehrlund jesper@prisjakt.nu
172 Jiang Xin worldhello.net@gmail.com
173 Jim Meyering meyering@na-net.ornl.gov
174 Jochen Hein jochen@jochen.org
175 Joel Reicher joel@panacea.null.org
176 Johan Liljegren johan@johanliljegren.se
177 Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen sortie@maxsi.org
178 Jörg Schilling schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de
179 Joey Hess joeyh@debian.org
180 Jonas Koch Bentzen jonas@understroem.dk
181 Joosep-Georg Järvemaa joosep-georg.jarvemaa_4898@eesti.ee
182 Jorn Baayen jbaayen@dds.nl
183 Josep Puigdemont baldrick@terra.es
184 Joshua R. Poulson jrp@plaza.ds.adp.com
185 Jouko Orava joorava@pcu.helsinki.fi
186 Jozef Riha jose1711@gmail.com
187 Juan Manuel Guerrero st001906@hrz1.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de
188 Jürgen A. Erhard jae+debian@jerhard.org
189 Julien Chiron julien.chiron@univ.u-3mrs.fr
190 Jun Sawataishi jsawa@attglobal.net
191 Kalle Niemitalo tosi@ees2.oulu.fi
192 Karl Berry kb@cs.umb.edu
193 Karl Chen quarl@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu
194 Karl Eichwalder ke@suse.de
195 Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu
196 Kenichi Handa handa@etl.go.jp
197 Ken Y. Clark kclark@logsoft.com
198 Kevin Ryde user42@zip.com.au
199 Kingpin mthurn@copper.dulles.tasc.com
200 Kiyotaka Sakai ksakai@isr.co.jp
201 Kouichi Hashikawa z01a7ksy@cs.ecip.tohoku.ac.jp
202 Larry Schwimmer rosebud@cyclone.stanford.edu
203 Lars Hecking lhecking@nmrc.ie
204 Lars Wendler polynomial-c@gentoo.org
205 Laurent Bourbeau bourbeau@progiciels-bpi.ca
206 Len Makin len@hpc.csiro.au
207 Leonard den Ottolander leonard@den.ottolander.nl
208 Leonardo Fontenelle leo.fontenelle@gmail.com
209 Liu Garfield jackliu9999@hotmail.com
210 Lorenzo Gil Sanchez lgs@sicem.biz
211 Luke Schierer lschiere@rackspace.com
212 Maciej W. Rozycki macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl
213 Mads Martin Joergensen mmj@suse.de
214 Manuel Uberti manuel@boccaperta.com
215 Marc Prior MarcPrior@compuserve.com
216 Marcel Telka marcel@telka.sk
217 Marcus Daniels marcus@sysc.pdx.edu
218 Marcus Meissner meissner@suse.de
219 Marin Purgar pmc@asgard.hr
220 Marius Schamschula mschamschula@gmail.com
221 Mark A. Wicks mwicks@kettering.edu
222 Mark D. Baushke mdb@cvshome.org
223 Mark Detrick Mark.Detrick@mcdata.com
224 Mark Eichin eichin@thok.org
225 Mark Junker mjscod@gmx.de
226 Martin Mokrejš mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz
227 Martin Pitt mpitt@debian.org
228 Martin Quinson martin.quinson@ens-lyon.fr
229 Martin v. Löwis martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de
230 Maryam Aly maryam@foursquare.com
231 Matt Dreezer matthew.dreezer@edl.uk.eds.com
232 Matthew Behrens askedrelic@gmail.com
233 Matthew McGillis matthew@jenika.com
234 Matthias Clasen mclasen@redhat.com
235 Mattias Ellert mattias.ellert@tsl.uu.se
236 Matthias Kiefer kiefer@kde.org
237 Max de Mendizabal max@acer.com.mx
238 Max Lin mlin@suse.com
239 Michael C. Toren mct@toren.net
240 Michael Felt aixtools@gmail.com
241 Michael Opdenacker m-opdenacker@ti.com
242 Michael Schloh von Bennewitz michael.schloh@cw.com
243 Michael Stather michaelstather@nuzi.de
244 Michal Černoevič Michal.Cernoevic@pvt.cz
245 Michel Robitaille robitail@iro.umontreal.ca
246 Michele Locati michele@locati.it
247 Michelle Konzack linux4michelle@freenet.de
248 Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas rosen644835@gmail.com
249 Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
250 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann mne@mosaic-ag.com
252 Nelson H. F. Beebe beebe@math.utah.edu
253 Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
254 Nicolas François nicolas.francois@centraliens.net
255 Niki Waibel niki.waibel@newlogic.com
256 Nils Magnus Larsgard nmlarsgaard@atmel.no
257 Nils Naumann naumann@unileoben.ac.at
258 Nina Kusnetsova nina@ns.kinetics.nsc.ru
259 Noah Friedman friedman@splode.com
260 Noah Slater nslater@gmail.com
261 Olly Betts olly@survex.com
262 O'Riva oriva@earthlink.net
263 Owen Taylor otaylor@redhat.com
264 Pablo Saratxaga pablo@mandrakesoft.com
265 Paolo Bonzini bonzini@gnu.org
266 Paul D. Smith psmith@gnu.org
267 Paul Eggert eggert@twinsun.com
268 Paul Jarc prj@po.cwru.edu
269 Paul Martinolich martinol@nrlssc.navy.mil
270 Paul Zimmermann Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr
271 Pavel Kharitonov ineiev@gnu.org
272 Pavel Raiskup praiskup@redhat.com
273 Pavel Roskin proski@gnu.org
274 Pekka Järveläinen pj@csc.fi
275 Pepa cerna.zelva@seznam.cz
276 Perry Rapp prapp@erols.com, lifelines_3_0_18@hotmail.com
277 Perry Smith pedz@easesoftware.com
278 Peter Breitenlohner peb@mppmu.mpg.de
279 Peter Eisentraut peter@eisentraut.org
280 Pierre pierre42d@9online.fr
281 Philip Withnall philip@tecnocode.co.uk
282 Philipp Thomas pthomas@suse.de
283 Primoz Peterlin primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si
284 Rafał Maszkowski rzm@icm.edu.pl
285 Ralf Corsepius rc040203@freenet.de
286 Ralf Menzel menzel@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de
287 Ralf Wildenhues Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de
288 Raphaël Zhou xzhou@tlmcom.fr
289 Recai Oktaş roktas@omu.edu.tr
290 Reinout van Schouwen reinout@cs.vu.nl
291 Reuben Thomas rrt@sc3d.org
292 Rhys Weatherley rweather@zip.com.au
293 Richard Hughes hughsient@gmail.com
294 Richard Lloyd richard.lloyd@connectinternetsolutions.com
295 Richard S. Blake blakers@presence-group.com
296 Richard Stallman rms@gnu.org
297 Rob Landley rob@landley.net
298 Rob Leslie rob@mars.org
299 Robert Millan rmh@aybabtu.com
300 Robert Vock RobertVock@gmx.de
301 Roberto Bagnara bagnara@cs.unipr.it
302 Rodrigo Stulzer Lopes rodrigo@conectiva.com.br
303 Roger Leigh rl117@york.ac.uk
304 Roland McGrath roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu
305 Ron Lee ron@debian.org
306 Roozbeh Pournader roozbeh@sharif.edu
307 Ross Golder ross@golder.org
308 Roumen Petrov bugtrack@roumenpetrov.info
309 Ryan Anderson ryan@autoweb.net
310 Ryan Schmidt gettext-2007b@ryandesign.com
311 Sakai Kiyotaka ksakai@netwk.ntt-at.co.jp
312 Sam Hocevar sam@zoy.org
313 Sam Steingold sds@gnu.org
314 Santiago Vila Doncel sanvila@unex.es
315 Sebastian Günther sguenther@gmx.de
316 Sergey Poznyakoff gray@mirddin.farlep.net
317 Sergio Talens-Oliag sto@debian.org
318 Shaun McCance shaunm@gnome.org
319 Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh@redhat.com
320 Simon Josefsson jas@extundo.com
321 Simon Watts swatts@ngms.eu.com
322 Simos Xenitellis simos74@gmx.net
323 Stanislav Brabec sbrabec@suse.cz
324 Stanislav Visnovsky visnovsky@nenya.ms.mff.cuni.cz
325 Stefan Hundhammer sh@suse.de
326 Stefan Kost kost@imn.htwk-leipzig.de
327 Stefan Kowski stefan.kowski@parks-informatik.de
328 Stefan Nordhausen nordhaus@informatik.hu-berlin.de
329 Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattarini@gmail.com
330 Steffen Macke sdteffen@gmail.com
331 Stepan Kasal kasal@math.cas.cz
332 Stephan Kulow coolo@kde.org
333 Stephane Matamontero stephane.matamontero@gemodek.de
334 Stephen Cartwright sgcartwr@ucalgary.ca
335 Stephen Gildea gildea@stop.mail-abuse.org
336 Steve Ellcey sellcey@mips.com
337 Steven Edwards Steven_Ed4153@yahoo.com
338 Svante Seleborg svante@axantum.com
339 Sven Joachim sven_joachim@web.de
340 Sven Utcke utcke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
341 Sylvain Beucler beuc@gnu.org
342 Thomas E. Dickey dickey@clark.net
343 Thomas Vander Stichele thomas@apestaart.org
344 Thorsten Kukuk kukuk@suse.de
345 Thorsten Maerz torte@netztorte.de
346 Tim Mooney mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.nodak.edu
347 Tim Van Holder tim.van.holder@pandora.be
348 Tom Tromey tromey@cygnus.com
349 Tommy mesilliac@gmail.com
350 Tommy Johansson tommy@kanalen.org
351 Tor Lillqvist tml@iki.fi
352 Trond Eivind Glomsrød teg@redhat.com
353 Uwe Ohse uwe@tirka.gun.de
354 Vaclav Haisman V.Haisman@sh.cvut.cz
355 Václav Slavík vaclav@slavik.io
356 Valery Beaud valery.beaud@art.alcatel.fr
357 Vera Mickael vera.mickael@free.fr
358 Veronica Loell info@nakawe.se
359 Vincent Torri vtorri@univ-evry.fr
360 Volodymyr M. Lisivka lvm@mystery.lviv.net
361 Wang Jian lark@linux.net.cn
362 Warren L Dodge warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com
363 Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
364 Werner Lemberg wl@gnu.org
365 Wesley J. Landaker wjl@icecavern.net
366 William J Poser wjposer@ldc.upenn.edu
367 Will Newton will.newton@linaro.org
368 Wojciech Polak polak@gnu.org
369 Xiong Jiang jxiong@offtopic.org
370 Yann Dirson ydirson@altern.org
371 Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowi@redhat.com
372 Yves Codet ycodet@club-internet.fr
375 Thanks to all members of the translation teams for the different