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| <h3 class="section">8.2 The Uniforum approach to Message Translation</h3> |
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| <p>Sun Microsystems tried to standardize a different approach to message |
| translation in the Uniforum group. There never was a real standard |
| defined but still the interface was used in Sun's operation systems. |
| Since this approach fits better in the development process of free |
| software it is also used throughout the GNU project and the GNU |
| <samp><span class="file">gettext</span></samp> package provides support for this outside the GNU C |
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| numerous helper programs are not described in this manual. Instead |
| people should read the GNU <samp><span class="file">gettext</span></samp> manual |
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| <p>Though the <code>catgets</code> functions are available by default on more |
| systems the <code>gettext</code> interface is at least as portable as the |
| former. The GNU <samp><span class="file">gettext</span></samp> package can be used wherever the |
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