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 , who did a major part of the testing, provided the Emacs PO mode, and wrote major parts of the manual. Peter Miller invested a lot of his time in making gettext usable in other GNU projects and wrote the msgmerge, msgcmp, and msgunfmt programs. Guido Flohr wrote the Perl backend of xgettext and the libintl-perl package. Thanks to all of the following for their valuable hints/fixes/discussions/contributions: Adam Heath doogie@debian.org Adrian Bunk bunk@fs.tum.de Akim Demaille akim@epita.fr Alain Guibert derogaton+bggt@oreka.com Albert Chin-A-Young china@thewrittenword.com Alexander V. Lukyanov lav@yars.free.net Alexander Turbov AVTurbov@gwise.eltech.ru Alexandre Duret-Lutz aduret@enst.fr Andreas Buening andreas.buening@nexgo.de Andreas Fischer a.fischer@asentics.de Andreas Schwab schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Andrew Suffield asuffield@debian.org Andrew V. Samoilov kai@cmail.ru Andrew Zabolotny zap@cobra.ru Andries Brouwer andries.brouwer@cwi.nl Artem Vakhitov temcat@mail.ru A. Sopicki a.sopicki@gmx.de Bang Jun Young bangjy@nownuri.nowcom.co.kr Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com Ben Elliston bje@redhat.com Benoît Sibaud benoit.sibaud@rd.francetelecom.com Bernard Massot bmassot@free.fr Bernhard Herzog bernhard@users.sourceforge.net Bill Perry wmperry@aventail.com Bram Moolenaar bram@moolenaar.net Bruno Haible haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de Carlo Wood carlo@alinoe.com Carlos Perelló Marín carlos@gnome.org Charles Wilson cwilson@ece.gatech.edu 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 Chuck Berg chuckhberg@yahoo.com Colin Watson cjwatson@debian.org Crispin Flowerday cflowerday@zeus.com Daniel Burrows dburrows@debian.org Daniel Schepler schepler@math.berkeley.edu Denis Barbier barbier@linuxfr.org Dennis Bjorklund db@zigo.dhs.org Derek Clegg derek_clegg@next.com Dwayne Bailey dwayne@obsidian.co.za Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Edmund Grimley Evans edmundo@rano.org 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 Botcazou ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr Fatih Demir kabalak@gtranslator.org Felipe Contreras al593181@mail.mty.itesm.mx Felix Natter f.natter@ndh.net Francesco Potortì pot@fly.cnuce.cnr.it Frank Donahoe fdonahoe@wilkes1.wilkes.edu Frédéric L. W. Meunier 0@pervalidus.tk 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 H. J. Lu hjl@lucon.org Hrvoje Niksic hniksic@srce.hr Igor Brezac igor@ipass.net Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen joukj@hrem.stm.tudelft.nl Jakub Jelinek jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz James A Baker jabaker@mac.com James Henstridge james@daa.com.au Jan Djärv jan.djarv@mbox200.swipnet.se Jan-Marek Glogowski glogow@stud.fbi.fh-darmstadt.de Jan Schneider jan@horde.org Jeff Bonggren jbon@cfl.rr.com Jim Meyering meyering@na-net.ornl.gov Jochen Hein jochen@jochen.org Jonas Koch Bentzen jonas@understroem.dk Joosep-Georg Järvemaa joosep-georg.jarvemaa_4898@eesti.ee Joshua R. Poulson jrp@plaza.ds.adp.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 Eichwalder ke@suse.de Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu Kenichi Handa handa@etl.go.jp 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 Laurent Bourbeau bourbeau@progiciels-bpi.ca Len Makin len@hpc.csiro.au Liu Garfield jackliu9999@hotmail.com Luke Schierer lschiere@rackspace.com Maciej W. Rozycki macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl 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 Mark Eichin eichin@thok.org Martin Mokrejš mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz Martin Quinson martin.quinson@ens-lyon.fr Martin v. Löwis martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de Matthias Kiefer kiefer@kde.org Max de Mendizabal max@acer.com.mx Michael C. Toren mct@toren.net Michael Opdenacker m-opdenacker@ti.com Michael Stather michaelstather@nuzi.de Michal Černoevič Michal.Cernoevic@pvt.cz Michel Robitaille robitail@iro.umontreal.ca Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann mne@mosaic-ag.com Nelson H. F. Beebe beebe@math.utah.edu Niki Waibel niki.waibel@newlogic.com Nils Naumann naumann@unileoben.ac.at Nina Kusnetsova nina@ns.kinetics.nsc.ru Noah Friedman friedman@splode.com Olly Betts olly@survex.com O'Riva oriva@earthlink.net Owen Taylor otaylor@redhat.com Paolo Bonzini bonzini@gnu.org Paul D. Smith psmith@gnu.org Paul Eggert eggert@twinsun.com Paul Jarc prj@po.cwru.edu Pavel Roskin proski@gnu.org Pekka Järveläinen pj@csc.fi Perry Rapp prapp@erols.com, lifelines_3_0_18@hotmail.com Peter Breitenlohner peb@mppmu.mpg.de Philipp Thomas pthomas@suse.de Primoz Peterlin primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si Richard S. Blake blakers@presence-group.com Richard Stallman rms@gnu.org Rob Leslie rob@mars.org Rodrigo Stulzer Lopes rodrigo@conectiva.com.br Roger Leigh rl117@york.ac.uk Roland McGrath roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu 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 Simon Josefsson jas@extundo.com Simos Xenitellis simos74@gmx.net Stanislav Visnovsky visnovsky@nenya.ms.mff.cuni.cz Stefan Hundhammer sh@suse.de Stefan Kost kost@imn.htwk-leipzig.de Stepan Kasal kasal@math.cas.cz Stephan Kulow coolo@kde.org Stephen Gildea gildea@stop.mail-abuse.org Steven Edwards Steven_Ed4153@yahoo.com Sven Utcke utcke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thomas E. Dickey dickey@clark.net Thorsten Kukuk kukuk@suse.de Tim Mooney mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.nodak.edu Tim Van Holder tim.van.holder@pandora.be Tom Tromey tromey@cygnus.com Tommy Johansson tommy@kanalen.org Tor Lillqvist tml@iki.fi Trond Eivind Glomsrød teg@redhat.com Uwe Ohse uwe@tirka.gun.de Valery Beaud valery.beaud@art.alcatel.fr Veronica Loell info@nakawe.se 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 Wojciech Polak polak@gnu.org Xiong Jiang jxiong@offtopic.org Thanks to all members of the translation teams for the different languages.