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UNIX Name: gettext Website: http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
The GNU `gettext' utilities are a set of tools that provides a framework to help other GNU packages produce multi-lingual messages. These tools include a set of conventions about how programs should be written to support message catalogs, a directory and file naming organization for the message catalogs themselves, a runtime library supporting the retrieval of translated messages, and a few stand-alone programs to massage in various ways the sets of translatable strings, or already translated strings.
# ./build_libiconv.sh # ./build_libintl.sh
libiconv.so.3 959,408 bytes libintl.so.6 29,252 bytes total 988,660 bytes
Proprietary string matching as implemented by the phpmyadmin & FreeNAS projects.
A standard i18n opens a wide range of tools to assist translaters. Translating can be tedious, and especially inconvenient across updates, using a standard function should help reduce that burden.
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