gettext-0.13-pre1 available for testing

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

Six months after 0.12.1, the first prerelease of gettext-0.13.

   http://www.haible.de/bruno/gnu/gettext-0.13-pre1.tar.gz

This is a test release of GNU gettext.  Please do not send reports
about this release to any GNU mailing list or newsgroup. Please send
comments and problems to <bruno at clisp.org>.

Note that test release numbers cannot be given as argument to the "autopoint"
program. Therefore please don't use the "gettextize" program of this test
release on projects which you share with other programmers via CVS.

News:

* Programming languages support:

  - Shell:

    xgettext now also supports shell scripts. It recognizes invocations of
    the programs 'gettext', 'ngettext', the functions 'eval_gettext',
    'eval_ngettext', as well as the deprecated GNU bash builtin syntax $"...".
    New function library:
      gettext.sh - shell functions for internationalized shell scripts.
    New program:
      envsubst - substitutes environment variables in shell format strings.

  - Perl:

    xgettext now also supports Perl.

  - PHP:

    "xgettext --language=PHP" now supports the plural handling functions
    ngettext, dngettext, dcngettext (introduced in PHP 4.2.0).

  - ObjectiveC:

    "xgettext --language=ObjectiveC" now supports the @"..." string syntax,
    the NSLocalizedString function and the ObjectiveC specific format strings.

    All the tools that manipulate PO files can work with .strings files
    as well, if given the --stringtable-input and/or --stringtable-output
    option. To create a .strings file from a PO or POT file, use
    "msgcat --stringtable-output". To create a PO or POT file from a
    .strings file, use "xgettext".

  - GCC-source:

    xgettext's --language option now supports the value "GCC-source". This
    is like --language=C, except that in this mode, xgettext recognizes the
    special kind of format strings used in the GCC sources and marks them
    as 'gcc-internal-format'.

  - C++ with Qt:

    xgettext has a new option --qt that triggers the recognition and marking
    of Qt format strings.

    msgfmt has a new option --qt that generates binary message catalogs in
    Qt's .qm format.

* Data formats support:

  - Glade:
    xgettext now also supports Glade version 2.

* xgettext has a more reliable detection of format strings.  It now
  recognizes format strings depending on their position, for example as the
  second argument of fprintf(), regardless whether the literal string contains
  format directives.  This behaviour can be customized through the --flag
  option.

* libgettextpo library:

  - New functions for testing the obsolete/fuzzy/*-format flags of a message.
  - New convenience functions for extracting and analyzing the header entry.

* Portability:

  - C format strings with positions, as they arise when a translator needs to
    reorder a sentence, are now supported on all platforms. On those few
    platforms (NetBSD and Woe32) for which the native printf()/fprintf()/...
    functions don't support such format strings, replacements are provided
    through <libintl.h>.

  - A new configuration option --disable-libasprintf allows to build all of
    gettext except libasprintf; this is necessary on platforms for which
    libtool cannot create shared libraries with C++ code.

* Documentation:

  - Complete examples illustrating the use of gettext, including program
    sources, Makefile and autoconf infrastructure, have been added. They
    cover the following programming languages:
      C           (text mode, GNOME)
      C++         (text mode, Qt, KDE, GNOME)
      ObjectiveC  (text mode, GNUstep, GNOME)
      Shell       (text mode)
      Python      (text mode)
      Lisp        (text mode)
      librep      (text mode)
      Smalltalk   (text mode)
      Java        (text mode, AWT, Java)
      awk         (text mode)
      Pascal      (text mode)
      YCP         (libyui)
      Tcl         (text mode, Tk)
      Perl        (text mode)
      PHP         (text mode)