gettext: The original ABOUT-NLS
17.2 Notes on the Free Translation Project
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This section contains the text that was, for a long time, distributed
as a file named ‘ABOUT-NLS’.
* NOTE: * This documentation section is outdated. It it included
here for historical purposes only.
Free software is going international! The Free Translation Project
is a way to get maintainers of free software, translators, and users all
together, so that free software will gradually become able to speak many
languages. A few packages already provide translations for their
messages.
If you found this ‘ABOUT-NLS’ file inside a distribution, you may
assume that the distributed package does use GNU ‘gettext’ internally,
itself available at your nearest GNU archive site. But you do _not_
need to install GNU ‘gettext’ prior to configuring, installing or using
this package with messages translated.
Installers will find here some useful hints. These notes also
explain how users should proceed for getting the programs to use the
available translations. They tell how people wanting to contribute and
work on translations can contact the appropriate team.
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