Please update intl/



Hello!

The shared intl directory in GNOME is still using gettext-0.10.35 which is
more than 3 years old. The new versions of gettext bring new features,
most notably converting messages to the appropriate character encoding on
the fly.

People who have gettext installed will have those features automatically.
But if gettext is not installed or the installed version is old, they can
specify --with-included-gettext to get all the new features.

That's why the intl/ directory is included in every package. And that's
why the contents of that directory matters.

I believe it's a good time to update the shared intl/ directory on the
GNOME repository with gettext-0.10.38 which has recently been released.
There is enough time before GNOME 2.0 to fix possible breakage.

Actually, the projects using AM_GNOME_GETTEXT won't be affected at all
because it disables support for --with-included-gettext. However, some
projects may want to switch back to the full-featured AM_GNU_GETTEXT.

In fact, GNU Midnight Commander really needs new features of gettext that
the old version doesn't provide. Work is underway on the support for
charset selection in the viewer and the editor. Function locale_charset()
would be _very_ handy - the user won't have to specify the current
encoding. And it doesn't exist in gettext-0.10.35.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin





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