Re: Plurals and ngettext

[hiura eng sun com (Hideki Hiura)]

> From: Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>
> What does "older Solaris" mean? Does it include Solaris 8?

The OpenI18N 1.2 compliant gettext support was first introcduced 
in Solaris 9, so vanilla Solaris 8 does not have Plurals/ngettext
support. But there are packport of OpenI18N 1.2 compliant gettext
support released as patches. 

	 SPARC: 108827-34 (for libc) and 113415-01 (for commands)
	 x86:   108828-35 (for libc) and ??????    (for commands)

So with these patches, Solaris 8 is also OK with the use of this
feature. 

There is no backport as far as I know of for Solaris 7 or the earlier
versions.

> Would it be ok to assume that using this feature in upcoming GNOME
> releases is a safe go anyway?

At least for the OpenI18N 1.2 compliant plarforms...

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