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Updated: gettext-0.15-1, gettext-devel-0.15-1, libgettextpo0-0.15-1;NEW: libintl8-0.15-1, libasprintf0-0.15-1


gettext is the GNU package which provides 'national language support' for other programs. It includes a number of utility programs.

These should be upgraded together with the libiconv packages.

	libiconv-1.11-1
	libiconv2-1.11-1
	libcharset1-1.11-1

	gettext-0.15-1
	gettext-devel-0.15-1
	libintl8-0.15-1 (*)
	libgettextpo0-0.15-1
	libasprintf0-0.15-1 (**)

(*) new library package -- the DLL ver of libintl was bumped a few times by the upstream maintainers during 0.15 development . You can (and should) have both libintl3-0.14.5-1 and libintl8-0.15-1 installed.

(**) New library. libasprintf0
This LGPL library makes the C formatted output routines (fprintf et al.) usable in C++ programs, for use with the <string> strings and the <iostream> streams. See /usr/share/doc/libasprintf/autosprintf.html.


CHANGES:

* Routine update to 0.15 upstream release
* library package now "libintl8" and contains "/usr/bin/cygintl-8.dll"
* cygwin (and other WOE32) shared library support now provided via
  a new mechanism, detailed at this thread [1] and this website [2].
  Note that this is (or should be) completely transparent to end users
  and to developers/maintainers of projects which use libiconv.
* Switch to cygport build framework. Requires patched cygport
     http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-10/msg00743.html
* Detailed changes listed below.

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2006-09/msg00000.html
[2] http://www.haible.de/bruno/woe32dll.html

--
Chuck

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==================================================================== Version 0.15 - July 2006

* GUI program support:
  - PO files can now contain messages constrained to a certain context.
    Most often such a context is a menu, dialog or panel identification.
    The syntax in the PO file is
      msgctxt "context"
      msgid "original"
      msgstr "translation"
  - The xgettext program can be told through the --keyword flag which
    function/macro argument has the role of a context.  It also supports
    the GNOME glib convention to specify the context and original string
    in the same string literal: "context|original".
  - The (non-public) include file gettext.h defines macros pgettext,
    dpgettext etc. that take a context argument.
  For more information, see the node "Contexts" in the manual.

* msgfmt's format string checking is now stricter in the presence of
  plural forms.  For example, in German, with  nplurals=2  and
  plural=(n != 1), the translation

     #, c-format
     msgid "%d fatal error"
     msgid_plural "%d fatal errors"
     msgstr[0] "ein fataler Fehler"
     msgstr[1] "fatale Fehler"

  was earlier considered valid and now gives an error when "msgfmt
  --check" is used:
    "number of format specifications in 'msgid' and 'msgstr[1]' does not
     match"

* msggrep has a new option -v/--invert-match that acts like grep's -v
  option.

* msggrep has a new option -X/--extracted-comment that allows to search
  for a pattern in the extracted comments.

* xgettext's --keyword option now allows to specify an extracted comment
  on the command line, rather than in program's source code.

* msgmerge is much faster now, when using a large compendium.

* A new program recode-sr-latin is provided, that converts Serbian text
  from the Cyrillic script to the Latin script.
  The command "msgfilter recode-sr-latin" can be used to convert a
  Serbian Cyrillic PO file (sr.po) to a Serbian Latin PO file
  (sr@latin.po).

* Programming languages support:

  - C++ with Boost:
    xgettext has a new option --boost that triggers the recognition and
    marking of boost::format strings.

  - Python:
    xgettext now recognizes the source encoding from a "coding:" comment
    among the first two lines.  The default encoding is now ASCII, no
    longer ISO-8859-1.

* libgettextpo library:
  - The error handler type passed to po_file_read(), po_file_write(),
    po_message_check_format() has changed.
    This is an incompatible change: Programs using the library *must*
    update their code.
    Binary compatibility is guaranteed, however.

* The 'mkinstalldirs' shell script is no longer needed and no longer
  installed by gettextize.

* Portability:
  - Building on mingw is now supported.
  - Building shared libraries (--enable-shared) on Cygwin and mingw is
    now supported.

* Interoperability with expat version 2.0.0.

* Documentation:
  A complete example showing the use of GNU gettext with the wxWidgets
  GUI toolkit has been added.

--------------------------
Version 0.14.6 - June 2006

* Updated the meaning of 'gcc-internal-format' to match GCC 4.1.


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