[bug-gettext] Coordination on standardizing gettext() in future POSIX

[Eric Blake]

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.

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