Version 0.26

v0.26

Version 0.26

Version 0.25.1

v0.25.1

Version 0.25.1

Version 0.24.1

v0.24.1

Version 0.24.1

Version 0.23.1

Upstream bugfixes release.

Version 0.23

See upstream announcement.

Version 0.22.5

Upstream bugfixes release.

Version 0.22.4

⚠️ Starting with this version, the binaries are built as 64-bit and require UCRT.

Upstream bugfixes release.

Version 0.22.3

Bugfixes release.

Version 0.22

Notable changes in this release:

PO file format:

• When a #: line contains references to file names that contain spaces, these file names are surrounded by Unicode characters U+2068 and U+2069. This makes it possible to parse such references correctly.

Improvements for maintainers:

• The AM_GNU_GETTEXT macro now defines two variables localedir_c and localedir_c_make, that can be used in C code or in Makefiles, respectively, for representing the value of the --localedir configure option.

Programming languages support:

• C, C++:

  • xgettext now supports gettext-like functions that take wide strings (of type 'const wchar_t *', 'const char16_t *', or 'const char32_t *') as arguments.
  • xgettext now recognizes numbers with digit separators, as defined by ISO C 23, as tokens.
  • xgettext and msgfmt now recognize the format string directive %b (for binary integer output, as defined by ISO C 23) in format strings.
  • xgettext and msgfmt now recognize the argument size specifiers w8, w16, w32, w64, wf8, wf16, wf32, wf64 (as defined by ISO C 23) in format strings.
  • xgettext and msgfmt now recognize C++ format strings, as defined by ISO C++ 20. They are marked as 'c++-format' in POT and PO files. A new example has been added, 'hello-c++20', that illustrates how to use these format strings with gettext.

• Java:

  • The build system and tools now also support Java versions newer than Java 11. This is known to work up to Java 20, at least. On the other hand, support for old versions of Java (Java 1.5 and GCJ) has been dropped.

• Tcl: xgettext now supports the \x, \u, and \U escapes as defined in Tcl 8.6.

xgettext:

• The xgettext option --sorted-output is now deprecated.
• xgettext input files of type PO that are not all ASCII and not UTF-8 encoded are now handled correctly.

The base Unicode standard is now updated to 15.0.0.

See also upstream announcement.

The GETTEXTIOENCODING patch was removed.

Version 0.21.1

See upstream announcement.

⚠️ Deprecation notice:
The patch that adds the GETTEXTIOENCODING environment variable is now deprecated. Use gettext's standard OUTPUT_CHARSET instead as recommended by upstream.