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 Alfred M. Szmidt ams@kemisten.nu Alfredo alfredio@ciaoweb.it 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 Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz arekm@pld-linux.org Artem Vakhitov temcat@mail.ru Asgeir Frimannsson asgeirf@redhat.com A. Sopicki a.sopicki@gmx.de 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 Benoît Sibaud benoit.sibaud@rd.francetelecom.com Bernard Massot bmassot@free.fr Bernhard Herzog bernhard@users.sourceforge.net Bethor bethor@gmx.li 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 Cary Farah cfarah@jjkeller.com 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 Christopher Seip chris.seip@hp.com Chuck Berg chuckhberg@yahoo.com Clytie Siddall clytie@riverland.net.au Colin Marquardt colin@marquardt-home.de Colin Watson cjwatson@debian.org Crispin Flowerday cflowerday@zeus.com Dalibor Topic robilad@kaffe.org Daniel Burrows dburrows@debian.org Daniel Schepler schepler@math.berkeley.edu Danilo Segan danilo@gnome.org David Fraser davidf@sjsoft.com Denis Barbier barbier@linuxfr.org Dennis Bjorklund db@zigo.dhs.org 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 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 Erik Sigra sigra@home.se 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 Gabriele Stilli superenzima@libero.it 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 Han Boetes han@mijncomputer.nl 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 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 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña jfs@computer.org Jeff Bonggren jbon@cfl.rr.com Jens A. Tkotz jens@peino.de Jim Meyering meyering@na-net.ornl.gov Jochen Hein jochen@jochen.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 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 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 Laurent Bourbeau bourbeau@progiciels-bpi.ca Len Makin len@hpc.csiro.au Liu Garfield jackliu9999@hotmail.com Lorenzo Gil Sanchez lgs@sicem.biz 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 A. Wicks mwicks@kettering.edu Mark D. Baushke mdb@cvshome.org 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 Matt Dreezer matthew.dreezer@edl.uk.eds.com Matthias Clasen mclasen@redhat.com 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 Schloh von Bennewitz michael.schloh@cw.com Michael Stather michaelstather@nuzi.de Michal Černoevič Michal.Cernoevic@pvt.cz Michel Robitaille robitail@iro.umontreal.ca Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org 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 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 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 Rafał Maszkowski rzm@icm.edu.pl Raphaël Zhou xzhou@tlmcom.fr Recai Oktaş roktas@omu.edu.tr Rhys Weatherley rweather@zip.com.au 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 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 Roozbeh Pournader roozbeh@sharif.edu Ross Golder ross@golder.org Ryan Anderson ryan@autoweb.net 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 Simon Josefsson jas@extundo.com Simon Watts swatts@ngms.eu.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 Stefan Nordhausen nordhaus@informatik.hu-berlin.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 Thomas Vander Stichele thomas@apestaart.org 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 Vaclav Haisman V.Haisman@sh.cvut.cz Valery Beaud valery.beaud@art.alcatel.fr Vera Mickael vera.mickael@free.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 Wesley J. Landaker wjl@icecavern.net William J Poser wjposer@ldc.upenn.edu Wojciech Polak polak@gnu.org Xiong Jiang jxiong@offtopic.org Yann Dirson ydirson@altern.org Thanks to all members of the translation teams for the different languages.