11.21 libintl.h

Defines the macros __USE_GNU_GETTEXT, __GNU_GETTEXT_SUPPORTED_REVISION, and declares the functions gettext, dgettext, dcgettext, ngettext, dngettext, dcngettext, textdomain, bindtextdomain, bind_textdomain_codeset.

Documentation:

• http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Message-catalogs-with-gettext.html,
• http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/gettext.html.

Gnulib module: gettext

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib, if GNU gettext is installed:

• This header file is missing on some platforms: Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
• The functions cannot deal with GNU .mo files with system-dependent strings (of major version 1 or of minor version 1) on some non-glibc platforms: NetBSD 3.0, Solaris 10.

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: