On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 10:47 AM Joerg Schilling < joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> Gettext is a SunOS invention and other implementations are expected to > follow > the definition from the reference implementation. > That implementation was the starting point but I didn't just copy it. We (mostly François, Peter, and I) fixed many shortcomings to make the API actually usable. Without that additional functionality the already-standardized message catalog mechanism would certainly have won. Do you really like to require SunOS to loose backwads incompatiblity? > Overly dramatic. You just need one mode that is POSIX compatible. Many GNU tools use POSIXLY_CORRECT_
