Re: GNU gettext 0.22 broke non-Unicode msgids

[Bruno Haible]

Robert Clausecker wrote:
> I know, but I can't reasonably change this as it's a declaration of
> authorship and Jörg was very particular about those being immutable.
> I'll respect his wishes and leave wherever he declared his own
> authorship exactly as it is, same spelling and all that.

Absolutely. We owe Jörg Schilling great respect.

> I mean, you wouldn't want anybody to make a fork of msgfmt() and
> change the "written by Ulrich Drepper" bit either, would you?

Absolutely. And I admit that I did not like this glibc commit:
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=30891f35fa7da832b66d80d0807610df361851f3

Bruno