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This is true not only from within GNU, but also in a great deal of proprietary and free software. Using a common language is quite handy for communication between developers, maintainers and users from all countries. On the other hand, most people are less comfortable with English than with their own native language, and would rather be using their mother tongue for day to day's work, as far as possible. Many would simply <em>love</em> seeing their computer screen showing a lot less of English, and far more of their own language. </p> <p> GNU gettext is an important step for the GNU Translation Project, as it is an asset on which we may build many other steps. This package offers to programmers, translators, and even users, a well integrated set of tools and documentation. Specifically, the GNU gettext utilities are a set of tools that provides a framework to help other GNU packages produce multi-lingual messages. These tools include a set of conventions about how programs should be written to support message catalogs, a directory and file naming organization for the message catalogs themselves, a runtime library supporting the retrieval of translated messages, and a few stand-alone programs to massage in various ways the sets of translatable strings, or already translated strings. A special <a href="/software/emacs/emacs.html">GNU Emacs</a> mode also helps interested parties in preparing these sets, or bringing them up to date. </p> <h3 id="documentation">Documentation</h3> <ul> <li><a href="/software/gettext/manual/index.html">Documentation for gettext</a> is available on-line.</li> <li><a href="/software/gettext/FAQ.html">The Frequently Asked Questions and their answers</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="/software/gettext/libasprintf/manual/index.html">Documentation for libasprintf</a> is available on-line.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="/software/gettext/libtextstyle/manual/index.html">Documentation for libtextstyle</a> is available on-line.</li> </ul> <h3 id="downloading">Downloading</h3> <p> The latest release is 0.22.5, which can be downloaded from <a href="https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.22.5.tar.gz">https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.22.5.tar.gz</a>. For other ways to obtain gettext, please read <a href="/software/software.html#getgnu">How to get GNU Software</a>. </p> <p> The latest development sources can be obtained from the <a href="https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gettext/">savannah project</a>, using Git. </p> <p> Michele Locati kindly provides <a href="https://mlocati.github.io/articles/gettext-iconv-windows.html">precompiled binaries for Windows</a> on his site. </p> <h3 id="maintainer">Maintainer</h3> <p>gettext is currently being maintained by Bruno Haible and Daiki Ueno. 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