[Patches] Supporting libintl/gettext

[Greg Ward]

On 29 May 2000, Martin von Loewis said:
> This is based on an earlier module named "intl". Because that name was
> found confusing, I renamed the C module to "libintl", which is the
> name of the header file providing these functions. The Python wrapper
> module, which is the one that should be used in applications, is named
> "gettext".

How about calling the extension "_gettext", and the Python wrapper
"gettext"?  This seems like a sensible and well-established convention,
especially if the goal is just an interface to the C 'gettext()'.  As an
extension name, "libintl" is really no better and no worse than "intl".

        Greg
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