Re: GNU gettext features now supported by Sun in Solaris

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert writes:
> This isn't a bug report, but I thought you'd like to know that Sun
> patch 113415-01, dated November 7, improved internationalization
> support in Solaris 8 by adding support for GNU gettext.

... and they started implementing that in March 2001.

> GNU users
> know that GNU gettext has been better than Solaris gettext for quite
> some time, but it's nice to see some recognition of this by Sun.

Kudos to Ulrich!

> PS.  The bad news is that Sun apparently reimplemented a subset GNU
> msgfmt from scratch rather than using GNU code; I don't know why they
> did this.

Maybe because they don't like the GPL? They prefer GNOME (LGPL) to KDE
(GPL).

Bruno