Editing Gettext (section)

{{short description|GNU internationalization and localization software}}
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| name                   = gettext
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| author                 = [[Sun Microsystems]]<ref name=sun>{{cite web |url=https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/gettext/manual/html_node/gettext.html |title=About gettext |website=gnu.org |access-date=2024-05-09}}</ref>
| developer              = various
| released               = {{start date and age|1990}}<ref name=history>{{cite web|url=http://compgroups.net/comp.unix.solaris/History-of-gettext-et-al |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323032211/http://compgroups.net/comp.unix.solaris/History-of-gettext-et-al |url-status=usurped |archive-date=23 March 2012 |title=History of gettext() et al? - comp.unix.solaris |website=Compgroups.net |access-date=2016-04-03}}</ref>
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| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q937302|P348|P548=Q2804309}}
| latest release date    = {{start date and age|{{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q937302|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}}}
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| operating system       = [[Cross-platform]]
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| language count         = <!-- DO NOT include this parameter unless you know what it does -->
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| genre                  = [[Internationalization and localization]]
| license                = Various [[free software license]]s
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| repo                   = various based on OpenSolaris and GNU gettext
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In [[computing]], '''gettext''' is an [[internationalization and localization]] (i18n and l10n) system commonly used for writing multilingual programs on [[Unix-like]] computer [[operating system]]s. One of the main benefits of gettext is that it separates programming from translating.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5966|title=Bridging the Digital Divide in South Africa {{!}} Linux Journal|last=Martindale|first=Linda|date=2002-11-01|website=linuxjournal.com|publisher=[[Linux Journal]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190917015344/https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5966|archive-date=17 September 2019|access-date=2019-09-17}}</ref> The most commonly used implementation of gettext is '''GNU gettext''',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6176|title=Introduction to Internationalization Programming {{!}} Linux Journal|last=Tykhomyrov|first=Olexiy Ye|date=2002-11-01|website=linuxjournal.com|publisher=[[Linux Journal]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190917020307/https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6176|archive-date=17 September 2019|access-date=2019-09-17}}</ref> released by the [[GNU Project]] in 1995. The runtime library is '''libintl'''. gettext provides an option to use different strings for any number of [[plural form]]s of nouns, but this feature has no support for [[grammatical gender]]. The main [[filename extension]]s used by this system are [[.POT]] (Portable Object Template), [[Portable object (computing)|.PO]] (Portable Object) and .MO (Machine Object).<ref name=":0" />