Hello GNU gettext folks,
Jörg Schilling is interested in standardizing gettext() and friends in a
future version of POSIX (as a replacement to the hard-to-use catgets()
that is currently standardized). See
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1122
While there are probably things in GNU gettext that won't be
standardized (for example, xgettext(1) has some long-only options, but
POSIX will only standardize short options), it is worth coordinating the
bare minimum set of features that are portable across GNU and other
implementations of gettext, as well as any wording changes that need to
be added (such as documenting thread-safety, locale interactions,
whether bindtextdomain() can only safely be used once prior to creating
threads, and so on) in order to actually be included in the standards.
Thus, this email is more of an introduction to make sure everyone
interested in the project is aware of where to write/review any wording
proposals for accomplishing the addition into POSIX.
--
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266
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