| The GNU gettext package is the first full featured package |
| directed to NLS support in the GNU packages. It has its roots in the |
| GNU C Library development and of course the (never officially |
| released) GNU locale package, mostly written by Jim Meyering. |
| Therefore a lot of people participated in the process of creating this |
| software. |
| |
| Written in April-June 1995 by |
| Ulrich Drepper drepper@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de |
| |
| Special thanks to François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>, who did a |
| major part of the testing, provided the Emacs PO mode, and wrote major |
| parts of the manual. |
| |
| Peter Miller <millerp@canb.auug.org.au> invested a lot of his time in making |
| gettext usable in other GNU projects and wrote the msgmerge, msgcmp, and |
| msgunfmt programs. |
| |
| Guido Flohr <guido@imperia.net> wrote the Perl backend of xgettext and |
| the libintl-perl package. |
| |
| Gora Mohanty <gora_mohanty@yahoo.co.in> wrote the tutorial. |
| |
| Thanks to all of the following for their valuable |
| hints/fixes/discussions/contributions: |
| |
| Aaron Stone aaron@serendipity.cx |
| Aaron Williams aaron_williams@net.com |
| Abel Cheung abelcheung@gmail.com |
| Adam Heath doogie@debian.org |
| Adrian Bunk bunk@fs.tum.de |
| Akim Demaille akim@epita.fr |
| Alain Bench messtic@oreka.com |
| Alain Guibert derogaton+bggt@oreka.com, alguibert@free.fr |
| Albert Chin-A-Young china@thewrittenword.com |
| Alex Henrie alexhenrie24@gmail.com |
| Alexander Potashev aspotashev@gmail.com |
| Alexander V. Lukyanov lav@yars.free.net |
| Alexander Turbov AVTurbov@gwise.eltech.ru |
| Alexandre Duret-Lutz aduret@enst.fr |
| Alfred M. Szmidt ams@kemisten.nu |
| Alfredo alfredio@ciaoweb.it |
| Amos Batto amosbatto@yahoo.com |
| Andreas Buening andreas.buening@nexgo.de |
| Andreas Fischer a.fischer@asentics.de |
| Andreas Schwab schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de |
| Andreas Stricker astricker@futurelab.ch |
| Andrew Suffield asuffield@debian.org |
| Andrew V. Samoilov kai@cmail.ru |
| Andrew Walrond andrew@walrond.org |
| Andrew Zabolotny zap@cobra.ru |
| Andries Brouwer andries.brouwer@cwi.nl |
| Andriy Gapon avg@icyb.net.ua |
| Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz arekm@pld-linux.org |
| Arpad Biro biro_arpad@yahoo.com |
| Artem Vakhitov temcat@mail.ru |
| Arto C. Nirkko anirkko@insel.ch |
| Asgeir Frimannsson asgeirf@redhat.com |
| A. Sopicki a.sopicki@gmx.de |
| ? atras-ch@mail.msiu.ru |
| Bang Jun Young bangjy@nownuri.nowcom.co.kr |
| Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com |
| Behdad Esfahbod behdad@cs.toronto.edu |
| Ben Elliston bje@redhat.com |
| Benno Schulenberg bensberg@justemail.net |
| Benoît Sibaud benoit.sibaud@rd.francetelecom.com |
| Bernard Massot bmassot@free.fr |
| Bernhard Herzog bernhard@users.sourceforge.net |
| Bernhard Voelker mail@bernhard-voelker.de |
| Bethor bethor@gmx.li |
| Bill Perry wmperry@aventail.com |
| Bjoern Voigt bjoern@cs.tu-berlin.de |
| Bob Rossi bob_rossi@cox.net |
| Bram Moolenaar bram@moolenaar.net |
| Bruno Haible haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de |
| Carl Fürstenberg azatoth@gmail.com |
| Carlo Wood carlo@alinoe.com |
| Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com |
| Carlos Perelló Marín carlos@gnome.org |
| Cary Farah cfarah@jjkeller.com |
| Charles Wilson cwilson@ece.gatech.edu |
| Chris Pickett chris.pickett@mail.mcgill.ca |
| Chris Zubrzycki beren@mac.com |
| Christian Casteyde casteyde.christian@free.fr |
| Christian Neumair chris@gnome-de.org |
| Christian von Roques roques@pond.sub.org |
| Christoph Thielecke u15119@hs-harz.de |
| Christopher Seip chris.seip@hp.com |
| Chuck Berg chuckhberg@yahoo.com |
| Chusslove Illich (Часлав Илић) caslav.ilic@gmx.net |
| Claudio Fontana claudio@gnu.org |
| Clytie Siddall clytie@riverland.net.au |
| Colin Marquardt colin@marquardt-home.de |
| Colin Watson cjwatson@debian.org |
| Crispin Flowerday cflowerday@zeus.com |
| Daiki Ueno ueno@gnu.org |
| Dalibor Topic robilad@kaffe.org |
| Daniel Burr dburr@dburr.net |
| Daniel Burrows dburrows@debian.org |
| Daniel Leidert daniel.leidert@wgdd.de |
| Daniel Schepler schepler@math.berkeley.edu |
| Danilo Šegan (Данило Шеган) danilo@gnome.org |
| Dave Patton dpatton@confluence.org |
| David Faure faure@kde.org |
| David Fraser davidf@sjsoft.com |
| David Shea dshea@redhat.com |
| Denis Barbier barbier@linuxfr.org |
| Denis Excoffier Denis.Excoffier@free.fr |
| Deniz Akkus deniz@arayan.com |
| Dennis Bjorklund db@zigo.dhs.org |
| Dennis Schridde devurandom@gmx.net |
| Derek Clegg derek_clegg@next.com |
| Derek Robert Price derek@ximbiot.com |
| Dwayne Bailey dwayne@obsidian.co.za |
| Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com |
| Ed Avis avised@kbcfp.com |
| Eddy Petrişor eddy.petrisor@gmail.com |
| Edmund Grimley Evans edmundo@rano.org |
| Egmont Koblinger egmont@uhulinux.hu |
| Eli Zaretskii eliz@is.elta.co.il |
| Enrico Scholz enrico.scholz@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de |
| Enrique Melero Gómez justine@iprolink.ch |
| Eric Backus ericb@lsid.hp.com |
| Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net |
| Eric Botcazou ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr |
| Erik Sigra sigra@home.se |
| Farzaneh Sarafraz farzaneh@farsiweb.info |
| Fatih Demir kabalak@gtranslator.org |
| Felipe Contreras al593181@mail.mty.itesm.mx |
| Felix Natter f.natter@ndh.net |
| Finlay Dobbie finlay.dobbie@gmail.com |
| Francesco Potortì pot@fly.cnuce.cnr.it |
| Frank Donahoe fdonahoe@wilkes1.wilkes.edu |
| Frédéric L. W. Meunier 0@pervalidus.tk |
| Gabor Kelemen kelemeng@gnome.hu |
| Gabriele Stilli superenzima@libero.it |
| Gaëtan Frenoy gaetan@frenoy.net |
| Gary V. Vaughan gary@gnu.org |
| Gerald Combs gerald@ethereal.com |
| Glenn Popelka gpp@mail.gpopelka.com |
| Golubev I. N. gin@mo.msk.ru |
| Greg McGary gkm@magilla.cichlid.com |
| Göran Uddeborg gvran@uddeborg.pp.se |
| Guillem Jover guillem@hadrons.org |
| Hagen Fritsch itooktheredpill@gmx.de |
| Haibin Zhang dragzhb@yahoo.com.cn |
| Han Boetes han@mijncomputer.nl |
| Hanno Boeck hanno@gentoo.org |
| Hans Ulrich Niedermann debian@n-dimensional.de |
| Henry Nelson netb@yuba.ne.jp |
| H. J. Lu hjl@lucon.org |
| Hrvoje Niksic hniksic@srce.hr |
| Igor Brezac igor@ipass.net |
| Ivailo xakepa10@gmail.com |
| I. Thomas Cundiff tcundiff@eclipse.net |
| Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen joukj@hrem.stm.tudelft.nl |
| Jakub Bogusz qboosh@pld-linux.org |
| Jakub Jelinek jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz |
| Jakub Wilk jwilk@debian.org |
| James A Baker jabaker@mac.com |
| James Henstridge james@daa.com.au |
| James Youngman jay@gnu.org |
| Jan Djärv jan.djarv@mbox200.swipnet.se |
| Jan-Marek Glogowski glogow@stud.fbi.fh-darmstadt.de |
| Jan Schneider jan@horde.org |
| Jason Keltz jas@cs.yorku.ca |
| Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña jfs@computer.org |
| Javier Jardón jjardon@gnome.org |
| Jeff Bonggren jbon@cfl.rr.com |
| Jeff Rizzo riz@netbsd.org |
| Jens A. Tkotz jens@peino.de |
| Jens Petersen petersen@redhat.com |
| Jesper Fehrlund jesper@prisjakt.nu |
| Jiang Xin worldhello.net@gmail.com |
| Jim Meyering meyering@na-net.ornl.gov |
| Jochen Hein jochen@jochen.org |
| Joel Reicher joel@panacea.null.org |
| Johan Liljegren johan@johanliljegren.se |
| Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen sortie@maxsi.org |
| Jörg Schilling schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de |
| Joey Hess joeyh@debian.org |
| Jonas Koch Bentzen jonas@understroem.dk |
| Joosep-Georg Järvemaa joosep-georg.jarvemaa_4898@eesti.ee |
| Jorn Baayen jbaayen@dds.nl |
| Josep Puigdemont baldrick@terra.es |
| Joshua R. Poulson jrp@plaza.ds.adp.com |
| Jouko Orava joorava@pcu.helsinki.fi |
| Jozef Riha jose1711@gmail.com |
| Juan Manuel Guerrero st001906@hrz1.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de |
| Jürgen A. Erhard jae+debian@jerhard.org |
| Julien Chiron julien.chiron@univ.u-3mrs.fr |
| Jun Sawataishi jsawa@attglobal.net |
| Kalle Niemitalo tosi@ees2.oulu.fi |
| Karl Berry kb@cs.umb.edu |
| Karl Chen quarl@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu |
| Karl Eichwalder ke@suse.de |
| Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu |
| Kenichi Handa handa@etl.go.jp |
| Ken Y. Clark kclark@logsoft.com |
| Kevin Ryde user42@zip.com.au |
| Kingpin mthurn@copper.dulles.tasc.com |
| Kiyotaka Sakai ksakai@isr.co.jp |
| Kouichi Hashikawa z01a7ksy@cs.ecip.tohoku.ac.jp |
| Larry Schwimmer rosebud@cyclone.stanford.edu |
| Lars Hecking lhecking@nmrc.ie |
| Lars Wendler polynomial-c@gentoo.org |
| Laurent Bourbeau bourbeau@progiciels-bpi.ca |
| Len Makin len@hpc.csiro.au |
| Leonard den Ottolander leonard@den.ottolander.nl |
| Leonardo Fontenelle leo.fontenelle@gmail.com |
| Liu Garfield jackliu9999@hotmail.com |
| Lorenzo Gil Sanchez lgs@sicem.biz |
| Luke Schierer lschiere@rackspace.com |
| Maciej W. Rozycki macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl |
| Mads Martin Joergensen mmj@suse.de |
| Manuel Uberti manuel@boccaperta.com |
| Marc Prior MarcPrior@compuserve.com |
| Marcel Telka marcel@telka.sk |
| Marcus Daniels marcus@sysc.pdx.edu |
| Marcus Meissner meissner@suse.de |
| Marin Purgar pmc@asgard.hr |
| Marius Schamschula mschamschula@gmail.com |
| Mark A. Wicks mwicks@kettering.edu |
| Mark D. Baushke mdb@cvshome.org |
| Mark Detrick Mark.Detrick@mcdata.com |
| Mark Eichin eichin@thok.org |
| Mark Junker mjscod@gmx.de |
| Martin Mokrejš mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz |
| Martin Pitt mpitt@debian.org |
| Martin Quinson martin.quinson@ens-lyon.fr |
| Martin v. Löwis martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de |
| Maryam Aly maryam@foursquare.com |
| Masanori Ogino masanori.ogino@gmail.com |
| Matt Dreezer matthew.dreezer@edl.uk.eds.com |
| Matthew Behrens askedrelic@gmail.com |
| Matthew McGillis matthew@jenika.com |
| Matthias Clasen mclasen@redhat.com |
| Mattias Ellert mattias.ellert@tsl.uu.se |
| Matthias Kiefer kiefer@kde.org |
| Max de Mendizabal max@acer.com.mx |
| Max Lin mlin@suse.com |
| Michael C. Toren mct@toren.net |
| Michael Felt aixtools@gmail.com |
| Michael Opdenacker m-opdenacker@ti.com |
| Michael Pyne mpyne@kde.org |
| Michael Schloh von Bennewitz michael.schloh@cw.com |
| Michael Stather michaelstather@nuzi.de |
| Michal Černoevič Michal.Cernoevic@pvt.cz |
| Michel Robitaille robitail@iro.umontreal.ca |
| Michele Locati michele@locati.it |
| Michelle Konzack linux4michelle@freenet.de |
| Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas rosen644835@gmail.com |
| Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org |
| Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann mne@mosaic-ag.com |
| ? mus1876@gmx.info |
| Nelson H. F. Beebe beebe@math.utah.edu |
| Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com |
| Nicolas François nicolas.francois@centraliens.net |
| Niki Waibel niki.waibel@newlogic.com |
| Nils Magnus Larsgard nmlarsgaard@atmel.no |
| Nils Naumann naumann@unileoben.ac.at |
| Nina Kusnetsova nina@ns.kinetics.nsc.ru |
| Noah Friedman friedman@splode.com |
| Noah Slater nslater@gmail.com |
| Olly Betts olly@survex.com |
| O'Riva oriva@earthlink.net |
| Owen Taylor otaylor@redhat.com |
| Pablo Saratxaga pablo@mandrakesoft.com |
| Paolo Bonzini bonzini@gnu.org |
| Paul D. Smith psmith@gnu.org |
| Paul Eggert eggert@twinsun.com |
| Paul Jarc prj@po.cwru.edu |
| Paul Martinolich martinol@nrlssc.navy.mil |
| Paul Zimmermann Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr |
| Pavel Kharitonov ineiev@gnu.org |
| Pavel Raiskup praiskup@redhat.com |
| Pavel Roskin proski@gnu.org |
| Pekka Järveläinen pj@csc.fi |
| Pepa cerna.zelva@seznam.cz |
| Perry Rapp prapp@erols.com, lifelines_3_0_18@hotmail.com |
| Perry Smith pedz@easesoftware.com |
| Peter Breitenlohner peb@mppmu.mpg.de |
| Peter Eisentraut peter@eisentraut.org |
| Pierre pierre42d@9online.fr |
| Philip Withnall philip@tecnocode.co.uk |
| Philipp Thomas pthomas@suse.de |
| Primoz Peterlin primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si |
| Rafał Maszkowski rzm@icm.edu.pl |
| Ralf Corsepius rc040203@freenet.de |
| Ralf Menzel menzel@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de |
| Ralf Wildenhues Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de |
| Raphaël Zhou xzhou@tlmcom.fr |
| Recai Oktaş roktas@omu.edu.tr |
| Reinout van Schouwen reinout@cs.vu.nl |
| Reuben Thomas rrt@sc3d.org |
| Rhys Weatherley rweather@zip.com.au |
| Richard Hughes hughsient@gmail.com |
| Richard Lloyd richard.lloyd@connectinternetsolutions.com |
| Richard S. Blake blakers@presence-group.com |
| Richard Stallman rms@gnu.org |
| Rob Landley rob@landley.net |
| Rob Leslie rob@mars.org |
| Robert Millan rmh@aybabtu.com |
| Robert Vock RobertVock@gmx.de |
| Roberto Bagnara bagnara@cs.unipr.it |
| Rodrigo Stulzer Lopes rodrigo@conectiva.com.br |
| Roger Leigh rl117@york.ac.uk |
| Roland McGrath roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu |
| Ron Lee ron@debian.org |
| Roozbeh Pournader roozbeh@sharif.edu |
| Ross Golder ross@golder.org |
| Roumen Petrov bugtrack@roumenpetrov.info |
| Ryan Anderson ryan@autoweb.net |
| Ryan Schmidt gettext-2007b@ryandesign.com |
| Sakai Kiyotaka ksakai@netwk.ntt-at.co.jp |
| Sam Hocevar sam@zoy.org |
| Sam Steingold sds@gnu.org |
| Santiago Vila Doncel sanvila@unex.es |
| Sebastian Günther sguenther@gmx.de |
| Sergey Poznyakoff gray@mirddin.farlep.net |
| Sergio Talens-Oliag sto@debian.org |
| Shaun McCance shaunm@gnome.org |
| Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh@redhat.com |
| Simon Josefsson jas@extundo.com |
| Simon Watts swatts@ngms.eu.com |
| Simos Xenitellis simos74@gmx.net |
| Stanislav Brabec sbrabec@suse.cz |
| Stanislav Visnovsky visnovsky@nenya.ms.mff.cuni.cz |
| Stefan Hundhammer sh@suse.de |
| Stefan Kost kost@imn.htwk-leipzig.de |
| Stefan Kowski stefan.kowski@parks-informatik.de |
| Stefan Nordhausen nordhaus@informatik.hu-berlin.de |
| Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattarini@gmail.com |
| Steffen Macke sdteffen@gmail.com |
| Stepan Kasal kasal@math.cas.cz |
| Stephan Kulow coolo@kde.org |
| Stephane Matamontero stephane.matamontero@gemodek.de |
| Stephen Cartwright sgcartwr@ucalgary.ca |
| Stephen Gildea gildea@stop.mail-abuse.org |
| Steve Ellcey sellcey@mips.com |
| Steven Edwards Steven_Ed4153@yahoo.com |
| Svante Seleborg svante@axantum.com |
| Sven Joachim sven_joachim@web.de |
| Sven Utcke utcke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de |
| Sylvain Beucler beuc@gnu.org |
| Thomas E. Dickey dickey@clark.net |
| Thomas Vander Stichele thomas@apestaart.org |
| Thorsten Kukuk kukuk@suse.de |
| Thorsten Maerz torte@netztorte.de |
| Tim Mooney mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.nodak.edu |
| Tim Van Holder tim.van.holder@pandora.be |
| Tom Tromey tromey@cygnus.com |
| Tommy mesilliac@gmail.com |
| Tommy Johansson tommy@kanalen.org |
| Tor Lillqvist tml@iki.fi |
| Trond Eivind Glomsrød teg@redhat.com |
| Uwe Ohse uwe@tirka.gun.de |
| Vaclav Haisman V.Haisman@sh.cvut.cz |
| Václav Slavík vaclav@slavik.io |
| Valery Beaud valery.beaud@art.alcatel.fr |
| Vera Mickael vera.mickael@free.fr |
| Veronica Loell info@nakawe.se |
| Vincent Torri vtorri@univ-evry.fr |
| Volodymyr M. Lisivka lvm@mystery.lviv.net |
| Wang Jian lark@linux.net.cn |
| Warren L Dodge warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com |
| Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org |
| Werner Lemberg wl@gnu.org |
| Wesley J. Landaker wjl@icecavern.net |
| William J Poser wjposer@ldc.upenn.edu |
| Will Newton will.newton@linaro.org |
| Wojciech Polak polak@gnu.org |
| Xiong Jiang jxiong@offtopic.org |
| Yann Dirson ydirson@altern.org |
| Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowi@redhat.com |
| Yves Codet ycodet@club-internet.fr |
| |
| |
| Thanks to all members of the translation teams for the different |
| languages. |