1The GNU gettext package is the first full featured package
2directed to NLS support in the GNU packages.  It has its roots in the
3GNU C Library development and of course the (never officially
4released) GNU locale package, mostly written by Jim Meyering.
5Therefore a lot of people participated in the process of creating this
6software.
7
8Written in April-June 1995 by
9Ulrich Drepper		drepper@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de
10
11Special thanks to Fran��ois Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>, who did a
12major part of the testing, provided the Emacs PO mode, and wrote major
13parts of the manual.
14
15Peter Miller <millerp@canb.auug.org.au> invested a lot of his time in making
16gettext usable in other GNU projects and wrote the msgmerge, msgcmp, and
17msgunfmt programs.
18
19Guido Flohr <guido@imperia.net> wrote the Perl backend of xgettext and
20the libintl-perl package.
21
22Gora Mohanty <gora_mohanty@yahoo.co.in> wrote the tutorial.
23
24Thanks to all of the following for their valuable
25hints/fixes/discussions/contributions:
26
27Aaron Stone		aaron@serendipity.cx
28Aaron Williams		aaron_williams@net.com
29Abel Cheung		abelcheung@gmail.com
30Adam Heath		doogie@debian.org
31Adrian Bunk		bunk@fs.tum.de
32Akim Demaille		akim@epita.fr
33Alain Bench		messtic@oreka.com
34Alain Guibert		derogaton+bggt@oreka.com, alguibert@free.fr
35Albert Chin-A-Young	china@thewrittenword.com
36Alexander V. Lukyanov	lav@yars.free.net
37Alexander Turbov	AVTurbov@gwise.eltech.ru
38Alexandre Duret-Lutz	aduret@enst.fr
39Alfred M. Szmidt	ams@kemisten.nu
40Alfredo			alfredio@ciaoweb.it
41Amos Batto		amosbatto@yahoo.com
42Andreas Buening		andreas.buening@nexgo.de
43Andreas Fischer		a.fischer@asentics.de
44Andreas Schwab		schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
45Andrew Suffield		asuffield@debian.org
46Andrew V. Samoilov	kai@cmail.ru
47Andrew Walrond		andrew@walrond.org
48Andrew Zabolotny	zap@cobra.ru
49Andries Brouwer		andries.brouwer@cwi.nl
50Andriy Gapon		avg@icyb.net.ua
51Arkadiusz Mi��kiewicz	arekm@pld-linux.org
52Arpad Biro		biro_arpad@yahoo.com
53Artem Vakhitov		temcat@mail.ru
54Arto C. Nirkko		anirkko@insel.ch
55Asgeir Frimannsson	asgeirf@redhat.com
56A. Sopicki		a.sopicki@gmx.de
57?			atras-ch@mail.msiu.ru
58Bang Jun Young		bangjy@nownuri.nowcom.co.kr
59Barry A. Warsaw		barry@zope.com
60Behdad Esfahbod		behdad@cs.toronto.edu
61Ben Elliston		bje@redhat.com
62Beno��t Sibaud		benoit.sibaud@rd.francetelecom.com
63Bernard Massot		bmassot@free.fr
64Bernhard Herzog		bernhard@users.sourceforge.net
65Bethor			bethor@gmx.li
66Bill Perry		wmperry@aventail.com
67Bjoern Voigt		bjoern@cs.tu-berlin.de
68Bob Rossi		bob_rossi@cox.net
69Bram Moolenaar		bram@moolenaar.net
70Bruno Haible		haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de
71Carlo Wood		carlo@alinoe.com
72Carlos Perell�� Mar��n	carlos@gnome.org
73Cary Farah		cfarah@jjkeller.com
74Charles Wilson		cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
75Chris Pickett		chris.pickett@mail.mcgill.ca
76Chris Zubrzycki		beren@mac.com
77Christian Casteyde	casteyde.christian@free.fr
78Christian Neumair	chris@gnome-de.org
79Christian von Roques	roques@pond.sub.org
80Christoph Thielecke	u15119@hs-harz.de
81Christopher Seip	chris.seip@hp.com
82Chuck Berg		chuckhberg@yahoo.com
83Chusslove Illich (������������ ��������)	caslav.ilic@gmx.net
84Claudio Fontana		claudio@gnu.org
85Clytie Siddall		clytie@riverland.net.au
86Colin Marquardt		colin@marquardt-home.de
87Colin Watson		cjwatson@debian.org
88Crispin Flowerday	cflowerday@zeus.com
89Dalibor Topic		robilad@kaffe.org
90Daniel Burrows		dburrows@debian.org
91Daniel Leidert		daniel.leidert@wgdd.de
92Daniel Schepler		schepler@math.berkeley.edu
93Danilo ��egan (������������ ����������)	danilo@gnome.org
94Dave Patton		dpatton@confluence.org
95David Faure		faure@kde.org
96David Fraser		davidf@sjsoft.com
97Denis Barbier		barbier@linuxfr.org
98Denis Excoffier		Denis.Excoffier@free.fr
99Deniz Akkus		deniz@arayan.com
100Dennis Bjorklund	db@zigo.dhs.org
101Dennis Schridde		devurandom@gmx.net
102Derek Clegg		derek_clegg@next.com
103Derek Robert Price	derek@ximbiot.com
104Dwayne Bailey		dwayne@obsidian.co.za
105Earnie Boyd		earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
106Ed Avis			avised@kbcfp.com
107Eddy Petri��or		eddy.petrisor@gmail.com
108Edmund Grimley Evans	edmundo@rano.org
109Egmont Koblinger	egmont@uhulinux.hu
110Eli Zaretskii		eliz@is.elta.co.il
111Enrico Scholz		enrico.scholz@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
112Enrique Melero G��mez	justine@iprolink.ch
113Eric Backus		ericb@lsid.hp.com
114Eric Blake		ebb9@byu.net
115Eric Botcazou		ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr
116Erik Sigra		sigra@home.se
117Farzaneh Sarafraz	farzaneh@farsiweb.info
118Fatih Demir		kabalak@gtranslator.org
119Felipe Contreras	al593181@mail.mty.itesm.mx
120Felix Natter		f.natter@ndh.net
121Finlay Dobbie		finlay.dobbie@gmail.com
122Francesco Potort��	pot@fly.cnuce.cnr.it
123Frank Donahoe		fdonahoe@wilkes1.wilkes.edu
124Fr��d��ric L. W. Meunier	0@pervalidus.tk
125Gabor Kelemen		kelemeng@gnome.hu
126Gabriele Stilli		superenzima@libero.it
127Ga��tan Frenoy		gaetan@frenoy.net
128Gary V. Vaughan		gary@gnu.org
129Gerald Combs		gerald@ethereal.com
130Glenn Popelka		gpp@mail.gpopelka.com
131Golubev I. N.		gin@mo.msk.ru
132Greg McGary		gkm@magilla.cichlid.com
133G��ran Uddeborg		gvran@uddeborg.pp.se
134Hagen Fritsch		itooktheredpill@gmx.de
135Haibin Zhang		dragzhb@yahoo.com.cn
136Han Boetes		han@mijncomputer.nl
137Hans Ulrich Niedermann	debian@n-dimensional.de
138Henry Nelson		netb@yuba.ne.jp
139H. J. Lu		hjl@lucon.org
140Hrvoje Niksic		hniksic@srce.hr
141Igor Brezac		igor@ipass.net
142I. Thomas Cundiff	tcundiff@eclipse.net
143Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen	joukj@hrem.stm.tudelft.nl
144Jakub Bogusz		qboosh@pld-linux.org
145Jakub Jelinek		jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz
146James A Baker		jabaker@mac.com
147James Henstridge	james@daa.com.au
148James Youngman		jay@gnu.org
149Jan Dj��rv		jan.djarv@mbox200.swipnet.se
150Jan-Marek Glogowski	glogow@stud.fbi.fh-darmstadt.de
151Jan Schneider		jan@horde.org
152Jason Keltz		jas@cs.yorku.ca
153Javier Fern��ndez-Sanguino Pe��a	jfs@computer.org
154Jeff Bonggren		jbon@cfl.rr.com
155Jeff Rizzo		riz@netbsd.org
156Jens A. Tkotz		jens@peino.de
157Jens Petersen		petersen@redhat.com
158Jim Meyering		meyering@na-net.ornl.gov
159Jochen Hein		jochen@jochen.org
160Joel Reicher		joel@panacea.null.org
161J��rg Schilling		schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de
162Joey Hess		joeyh@debian.org
163Jonas Koch Bentzen	jonas@understroem.dk
164Joosep-Georg J��rvemaa	joosep-georg.jarvemaa_4898@eesti.ee
165Jorn Baayen		jbaayen@dds.nl
166Josep Puigdemont	baldrick@terra.es
167Joshua R. Poulson	jrp@plaza.ds.adp.com
168Jouko Orava		joorava@pcu.helsinki.fi
169Jozef Riha		jose1711@gmail.com
170Juan Manuel Guerrero	st001906@hrz1.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de
171J��rgen A. Erhard	jae+debian@jerhard.org
172Julien Chiron		julien.chiron@univ.u-3mrs.fr
173Jun Sawataishi		jsawa@attglobal.net
174Kalle Niemitalo		tosi@ees2.oulu.fi
175Karl Berry		kb@cs.umb.edu
176Karl Chen		quarl@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu
177Karl Eichwalder		ke@suse.de
178Kaveh R. Ghazi		ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu
179Kenichi Handa		handa@etl.go.jp
180Ken Y. Clark		kclark@logsoft.com
181Kevin Ryde		user42@zip.com.au
182Kingpin			mthurn@copper.dulles.tasc.com
183Kiyotaka Sakai		ksakai@isr.co.jp
184Kouichi Hashikawa	z01a7ksy@cs.ecip.tohoku.ac.jp
185Larry Schwimmer		rosebud@cyclone.stanford.edu
186Lars Hecking		lhecking@nmrc.ie
187Laurent Bourbeau	bourbeau@progiciels-bpi.ca
188Len Makin		len@hpc.csiro.au
189Leonard den Ottolander	leonard@den.ottolander.nl
190Leonardo Fontenelle	leo.fontenelle@gmail.com
191Liu Garfield		jackliu9999@hotmail.com
192Lorenzo Gil Sanchez	lgs@sicem.biz
193Luke Schierer		lschiere@rackspace.com
194Maciej W. Rozycki	macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl
195Mads Martin Joergensen	mmj@suse.de
196Marc Prior		MarcPrior@compuserve.com
197Marcel Telka		marcel@telka.sk
198Marcus Daniels		marcus@sysc.pdx.edu
199Marcus Meissner		meissner@suse.de
200Marin Purgar		pmc@asgard.hr
201Marius Schamschula	mschamschula@gmail.com
202Mark A. Wicks		mwicks@kettering.edu
203Mark D. Baushke		mdb@cvshome.org
204Mark Detrick		Mark.Detrick@mcdata.com
205Mark Eichin		eichin@thok.org
206Mark Junker		mjscod@gmx.de
207Martin Mokrej��		mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz
208Martin Pitt		mpitt@debian.org
209Martin Quinson		martin.quinson@ens-lyon.fr
210Martin v. L��wis		martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de
211Matt Dreezer		matthew.dreezer@edl.uk.eds.com
212Matthew McGillis	matthew@jenika.com
213Matthias Clasen		mclasen@redhat.com
214Mattias Ellert		mattias.ellert@tsl.uu.se
215Matthias Kiefer		kiefer@kde.org
216Max de Mendizabal	max@acer.com.mx
217Michael C. Toren	mct@toren.net
218Michael Opdenacker	m-opdenacker@ti.com
219Michael Schloh von Bennewitz	michael.schloh@cw.com
220Michael Stather		michaelstather@nuzi.de
221Michal ��ernoevi��	Michal.Cernoevic@pvt.cz
222Michel Robitaille	robitail@iro.umontreal.ca
223Michelle Konzack	linux4michelle@freenet.de
224Mike Frysinger		vapier@gentoo.org
225Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann	mne@mosaic-ag.com
226?			mus1876@gmx.info
227Nelson H. F. Beebe	beebe@math.utah.edu
228Nick Clifton		nickc@redhat.com
229Nicolas Fran��ois	nicolas.francois@centraliens.net
230Niki Waibel		niki.waibel@newlogic.com
231Nils Magnus Larsgard	nmlarsgaard@atmel.no
232Nils Naumann		naumann@unileoben.ac.at
233Nina Kusnetsova		nina@ns.kinetics.nsc.ru
234Noah Friedman		friedman@splode.com
235Noah Slater		nslater@gmail.com
236Olly Betts		olly@survex.com
237O'Riva			oriva@earthlink.net
238Owen Taylor		otaylor@redhat.com
239Pablo Saratxaga		pablo@mandrakesoft.com
240Paolo Bonzini		bonzini@gnu.org
241Paul D. Smith		psmith@gnu.org
242Paul Eggert		eggert@twinsun.com
243Paul Jarc		prj@po.cwru.edu
244Paul Martinolich	martinol@nrlssc.navy.mil
245Pavel Roskin		proski@gnu.org
246Pekka J��rvel��inen	pj@csc.fi
247Pepa			cerna.zelva@seznam.cz
248Perry Rapp		prapp@erols.com, lifelines_3_0_18@hotmail.com
249Perry Smith		pedz@easesoftware.com
250Peter Breitenlohner	peb@mppmu.mpg.de
251Pierre			pierre42d@9online.fr
252Philipp Thomas		pthomas@suse.de
253Primoz Peterlin		primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si
254Rafa�� Maszkowski	rzm@icm.edu.pl
255Ralf Corsepius		rc040203@freenet.de
256Ralf Menzel		menzel@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de
257Ralf Wildenhues		Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de
258Rapha��l Zhou		xzhou@tlmcom.fr
259Recai Okta��		roktas@omu.edu.tr
260Reinout van Schouwen	reinout@cs.vu.nl
261Rhys Weatherley		rweather@zip.com.au
262Richard Lloyd		richard.lloyd@connectinternetsolutions.com
263Richard S. Blake	blakers@presence-group.com
264Richard Stallman	rms@gnu.org
265Rob Landley		rob@landley.net
266Rob Leslie		rob@mars.org
267Robert Millan		rmh@aybabtu.com
268Robert Vock		RobertVock@gmx.de
269Roberto Bagnara		bagnara@cs.unipr.it
270Rodrigo Stulzer Lopes	rodrigo@conectiva.com.br
271Roger Leigh		rl117@york.ac.uk
272Roland McGrath		roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu
273Ron Lee			ron@debian.org
274Roozbeh Pournader	roozbeh@sharif.edu
275Ross Golder		ross@golder.org
276Ryan Anderson		ryan@autoweb.net
277Ryan Schmidt		gettext-2007b@ryandesign.com
278Sakai Kiyotaka		ksakai@netwk.ntt-at.co.jp
279Sam Hocevar		sam@zoy.org
280Sam Steingold		sds@gnu.org
281Santiago Vila Doncel	sanvila@unex.es
282Sebastian G��nther	sguenther@gmx.de
283Sergey Poznyakoff	gray@mirddin.farlep.net
284Sergio Talens-Oliag	sto@debian.org
285Simon Josefsson		jas@extundo.com
286Simon Watts		swatts@ngms.eu.com
287Simos Xenitellis	simos74@gmx.net
288Stanislav Brabec	sbrabec@suse.cz
289Stanislav Visnovsky	visnovsky@nenya.ms.mff.cuni.cz
290Stefan Hundhammer	sh@suse.de
291Stefan Kost		kost@imn.htwk-leipzig.de
292Stefan Kowski		stefan.kowski@parks-informatik.de
293Stefan Nordhausen	nordhaus@informatik.hu-berlin.de
294Steffen Macke		sdteffen@gmail.com
295Stepan Kasal		kasal@math.cas.cz
296Stephan Kulow		coolo@kde.org
297Stephane Matamontero	stephane.matamontero@gemodek.de
298Stephen Cartwright	sgcartwr@ucalgary.ca
299Stephen Gildea		gildea@stop.mail-abuse.org
300Steven Edwards		Steven_Ed4153@yahoo.com
301Svante Seleborg		svante@axantum.com
302Sven Joachim		sven_joachim@web.de
303Sven Utcke		utcke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
304Sylvain Beucler		beuc@gnu.org
305Thomas E. Dickey	dickey@clark.net
306Thomas Vander Stichele	thomas@apestaart.org
307Thorsten Kukuk		kukuk@suse.de
308Thorsten Maerz		torte@netztorte.de
309Tim Mooney		mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.nodak.edu
310Tim Van Holder		tim.van.holder@pandora.be
311Tom Tromey		tromey@cygnus.com
312Tommy Johansson		tommy@kanalen.org
313Tor Lillqvist		tml@iki.fi
314Trond Eivind Glomsr��d	teg@redhat.com
315Uwe Ohse		uwe@tirka.gun.de
316Vaclav Haisman		V.Haisman@sh.cvut.cz
317Valery Beaud		valery.beaud@art.alcatel.fr
318Vera Mickael		vera.mickael@free.fr
319Veronica Loell		info@nakawe.se
320Vincent Torri		vtorri@univ-evry.fr
321Volodymyr M. Lisivka	lvm@mystery.lviv.net
322Wang Jian		lark@linux.net.cn
323Warren L Dodge		warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com
324Werner Koch		wk@gnupg.org
325Werner Lemberg		wl@gnu.org
326Wesley J. Landaker	wjl@icecavern.net
327William J Poser		wjposer@ldc.upenn.edu
328Wojciech Polak		polak@gnu.org
329Xiong Jiang		jxiong@offtopic.org
330Yann Dirson		ydirson@altern.org
331Yves Codet		ycodet@club-internet.fr
332
333
334Thanks to all members of the translation teams for the different
335languages.
336