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 Adam Heath doogie@debian.org
28 Adrian Bunk bunk@fs.tum.de
29 Akim Demaille akim@epita.fr
30 Alain Guibert derogaton+bggt@oreka.com
31 Albert Chin-A-Young china@thewrittenword.com
32 Alexander V. Lukyanov lav@yars.free.net
33 Alexander Turbov AVTurbov@gwise.eltech.ru
34 Alexandre Duret-Lutz aduret@enst.fr
35 Alfred M. Szmidt ams@kemisten.nu
36 Alfredo alfredio@ciaoweb.it
37 Andreas Buening andreas.buening@nexgo.de
38 Andreas Fischer a.fischer@asentics.de
39 Andreas Schwab schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
40 Andrew Suffield asuffield@debian.org
41 Andrew V. Samoilov kai@cmail.ru
42 Andrew Zabolotny zap@cobra.ru
43 Andries Brouwer andries.brouwer@cwi.nl
44 Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz arekm@pld-linux.org
45 Artem Vakhitov temcat@mail.ru
46 Asgeir Frimannsson asgeirf@redhat.com
47 A. Sopicki a.sopicki@gmx.de
48 Bang Jun Young bangjy@nownuri.nowcom.co.kr
49 Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com
50 Behdad Esfahbod behdad@cs.toronto.edu
51 Ben Elliston bje@redhat.com
52 Benoît Sibaud benoit.sibaud@rd.francetelecom.com
53 Bernard Massot bmassot@free.fr
54 Bernhard Herzog bernhard@users.sourceforge.net
56 Bill Perry wmperry@aventail.com
57 Bram Moolenaar bram@moolenaar.net
58 Bruno Haible haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de
59 Carlo Wood carlo@alinoe.com
60 Carlos Perelló Marín carlos@gnome.org
61 Cary Farah cfarah@jjkeller.com
62 Charles Wilson cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
63 Christian Casteyde casteyde.christian@free.fr
64 Christian Neumair chris@gnome-de.org
65 Christian von Roques roques@pond.sub.org
66 Christoph Thielecke u15119@hs-harz.de
67 Christopher Seip chris.seip@hp.com
68 Chuck Berg chuckhberg@yahoo.com
69 Clytie Siddall clytie@riverland.net.au
70 Colin Marquardt colin@marquardt-home.de
71 Colin Watson cjwatson@debian.org
72 Crispin Flowerday cflowerday@zeus.com
73 Dalibor Topic robilad@kaffe.org
74 Daniel Burrows dburrows@debian.org
75 Daniel Schepler schepler@math.berkeley.edu
76 Danilo Segan danilo@gnome.org
77 David Fraser davidf@sjsoft.com
78 Denis Barbier barbier@linuxfr.org
79 Dennis Bjorklund db@zigo.dhs.org
80 Derek Clegg derek_clegg@next.com
81 Derek Robert Price derek@ximbiot.com
82 Dwayne Bailey dwayne@obsidian.co.za
83 Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
84 Ed Avis avised@kbcfp.com
85 Edmund Grimley Evans edmundo@rano.org
86 Eli Zaretskii eliz@is.elta.co.il
87 Enrico Scholz enrico.scholz@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
88 Enrique Melero Gómez justine@iprolink.ch
89 Eric Backus ericb@lsid.hp.com
90 Eric Botcazou ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr
91 Erik Sigra sigra@home.se
92 Fatih Demir kabalak@gtranslator.org
93 Felipe Contreras al593181@mail.mty.itesm.mx
94 Felix Natter f.natter@ndh.net
95 Francesco Potortì pot@fly.cnuce.cnr.it
96 Frank Donahoe fdonahoe@wilkes1.wilkes.edu
97 Frédéric L. W. Meunier 0@pervalidus.tk
98 Gabriele Stilli superenzima@libero.it
99 Gerald Combs gerald@ethereal.com
100 Glenn Popelka gpp@mail.gpopelka.com
101 Golubev I. N. gin@mo.msk.ru
102 Greg McGary gkm@magilla.cichlid.com
103 Göran Uddeborg gvran@uddeborg.pp.se
104 Han Boetes han@mijncomputer.nl
105 H. J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
106 Hrvoje Niksic hniksic@srce.hr
107 Igor Brezac igor@ipass.net
108 Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen joukj@hrem.stm.tudelft.nl
109 Jakub Jelinek jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz
110 James A Baker jabaker@mac.com
111 James Henstridge james@daa.com.au
112 James Youngman jay@gnu.org
113 Jan Djärv jan.djarv@mbox200.swipnet.se
114 Jan-Marek Glogowski glogow@stud.fbi.fh-darmstadt.de
115 Jan Schneider jan@horde.org
116 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña jfs@computer.org
117 Jeff Bonggren jbon@cfl.rr.com
118 Jens A. Tkotz jens@peino.de
119 Jim Meyering meyering@na-net.ornl.gov
120 Jochen Hein jochen@jochen.org
121 Jörg Schilling schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de
122 Joey Hess joeyh@debian.org
123 Jonas Koch Bentzen jonas@understroem.dk
124 Joosep-Georg Järvemaa joosep-georg.jarvemaa_4898@eesti.ee
125 Jorn Baayen jbaayen@dds.nl
126 Josep Puigdemont baldrick@terra.es
127 Joshua R. Poulson jrp@plaza.ds.adp.com
128 Jouko Orava joorava@pcu.helsinki.fi
129 Juan Manuel Guerrero st001906@hrz1.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de
130 Jürgen A. Erhard jae+debian@jerhard.org
131 Julien Chiron julien.chiron@univ.u-3mrs.fr
132 Jun Sawataishi jsawa@attglobal.net
133 Kalle Niemitalo tosi@ees2.oulu.fi
134 Karl Berry kb@cs.umb.edu
135 Karl Chen quarl@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu
136 Karl Eichwalder ke@suse.de
137 Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu
138 Kenichi Handa handa@etl.go.jp
139 Ken Y. Clark kclark@logsoft.com
140 Kingpin mthurn@copper.dulles.tasc.com
141 Kiyotaka Sakai ksakai@isr.co.jp
142 Kouichi Hashikawa z01a7ksy@cs.ecip.tohoku.ac.jp
143 Larry Schwimmer rosebud@cyclone.stanford.edu
144 Lars Hecking lhecking@nmrc.ie
145 Laurent Bourbeau bourbeau@progiciels-bpi.ca
146 Len Makin len@hpc.csiro.au
147 Liu Garfield jackliu9999@hotmail.com
148 Lorenzo Gil Sanchez lgs@sicem.biz
149 Luke Schierer lschiere@rackspace.com
150 Maciej W. Rozycki macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl
151 Marc Prior MarcPrior@compuserve.com
152 Marcel Telka marcel@telka.sk
153 Marcus Daniels marcus@sysc.pdx.edu
154 Marcus Meissner meissner@suse.de
155 Marin Purgar pmc@asgard.hr
156 Mark A. Wicks mwicks@kettering.edu
157 Mark D. Baushke mdb@cvshome.org
158 Mark Eichin eichin@thok.org
159 Martin Mokrejš mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz
160 Martin Quinson martin.quinson@ens-lyon.fr
161 Martin v. Löwis martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de
162 Matt Dreezer matthew.dreezer@edl.uk.eds.com
163 Matthias Clasen mclasen@redhat.com
164 Matthias Kiefer kiefer@kde.org
165 Max de Mendizabal max@acer.com.mx
166 Michael C. Toren mct@toren.net
167 Michael Opdenacker m-opdenacker@ti.com
168 Michael Schloh von Bennewitz michael.schloh@cw.com
169 Michael Stather michaelstather@nuzi.de
170 Michal Černoevič Michal.Cernoevic@pvt.cz
171 Michel Robitaille robitail@iro.umontreal.ca
172 Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
173 Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann mne@mosaic-ag.com
174 Nelson H. F. Beebe beebe@math.utah.edu
175 Niki Waibel niki.waibel@newlogic.com
176 Nils Naumann naumann@unileoben.ac.at
177 Nina Kusnetsova nina@ns.kinetics.nsc.ru
178 Noah Friedman friedman@splode.com
179 Olly Betts olly@survex.com
180 O'Riva oriva@earthlink.net
181 Owen Taylor otaylor@redhat.com
182 Pablo Saratxaga pablo@mandrakesoft.com
183 Paolo Bonzini bonzini@gnu.org
184 Paul D. Smith psmith@gnu.org
185 Paul Eggert eggert@twinsun.com
186 Paul Jarc prj@po.cwru.edu
187 Pavel Roskin proski@gnu.org
188 Pekka Järveläinen pj@csc.fi
189 Perry Rapp prapp@erols.com, lifelines_3_0_18@hotmail.com
190 Peter Breitenlohner peb@mppmu.mpg.de
191 Philipp Thomas pthomas@suse.de
192 Primoz Peterlin primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si
193 Rafał Maszkowski rzm@icm.edu.pl
194 Raphaël Zhou xzhou@tlmcom.fr
195 Recai Oktaş roktas@omu.edu.tr
196 Rhys Weatherley rweather@zip.com.au
197 Richard Lloyd richard.lloyd@connectinternetsolutions.com
198 Richard S. Blake blakers@presence-group.com
199 Richard Stallman rms@gnu.org
200 Rob Landley rob@landley.net
201 Rob Leslie rob@mars.org
202 Roberto Bagnara bagnara@cs.unipr.it
203 Rodrigo Stulzer Lopes rodrigo@conectiva.com.br
204 Roger Leigh rl117@york.ac.uk
205 Roland McGrath roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu
206 Roozbeh Pournader roozbeh@sharif.edu
207 Ross Golder ross@golder.org
208 Ryan Anderson ryan@autoweb.net
209 Sakai Kiyotaka ksakai@netwk.ntt-at.co.jp
210 Sam Hocevar sam@zoy.org
211 Sam Steingold sds@gnu.org
212 Santiago Vila Doncel sanvila@unex.es
213 Sebastian Günther sguenther@gmx.de
214 Sergey Poznyakoff gray@mirddin.farlep.net
215 Simon Josefsson jas@extundo.com
216 Simon Watts swatts@ngms.eu.com
217 Simos Xenitellis simos74@gmx.net
218 Stanislav Visnovsky visnovsky@nenya.ms.mff.cuni.cz
219 Stefan Hundhammer sh@suse.de
220 Stefan Kost kost@imn.htwk-leipzig.de
221 Stefan Nordhausen nordhaus@informatik.hu-berlin.de
222 Stepan Kasal kasal@math.cas.cz
223 Stephan Kulow coolo@kde.org
224 Stephen Gildea gildea@stop.mail-abuse.org
225 Steven Edwards Steven_Ed4153@yahoo.com
226 Sven Utcke utcke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
227 Thomas E. Dickey dickey@clark.net
228 Thomas Vander Stichele thomas@apestaart.org
229 Thorsten Kukuk kukuk@suse.de
230 Tim Mooney mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.nodak.edu
231 Tim Van Holder tim.van.holder@pandora.be
232 Tom Tromey tromey@cygnus.com
233 Tommy Johansson tommy@kanalen.org
234 Tor Lillqvist tml@iki.fi
235 Trond Eivind Glomsrød teg@redhat.com
236 Uwe Ohse uwe@tirka.gun.de
237 Vaclav Haisman V.Haisman@sh.cvut.cz
238 Valery Beaud valery.beaud@art.alcatel.fr
239 Vera Mickael vera.mickael@free.fr
240 Veronica Loell info@nakawe.se
241 Volodymyr M. Lisivka lvm@mystery.lviv.net
242 Wang Jian lark@linux.net.cn
243 Warren L Dodge warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com
244 Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
245 Wesley J. Landaker wjl@icecavern.net
246 William J Poser wjposer@ldc.upenn.edu
247 Wojciech Polak polak@gnu.org
248 Xiong Jiang jxiong@offtopic.org
249 Yann Dirson ydirson@altern.org
252 Thanks to all members of the translation teams for the different