[Patches] Supporting libintl/gettext

[Greg Stein]

On Tue, 30 May 2000, Greg Ward wrote:
> 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".

+1 on the rename


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