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 11 The Programmer’s View
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    One aim of the current message catalog implementation provided by GNU
 ‘gettext’ was to use the system’s message catalog handling, if the
 installer wishes to do so.  So we perhaps should first take a look at
 the solutions we know about.  The people in the POSIX committee did not
 manage to agree on one of the semi-official standards which we’ll
 describe below.  In fact they couldn’t agree on anything, so they
 decided only to include an example of an interface.  The major Unix
 vendors are split in the usage of the two most important specifications:
 X/Open’s catgets vs.  Uniforum’s gettext interface.  We’ll describe them
 both and later explain our solution of this dilemma.
 

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· catgets                     About ‘catgets’
· gettext                     About ‘gettext’
· Comparison                  Comparing the two interfaces
· Using libintl.a             Using libintl.a in own programs
· gettext grok                Being a ‘gettext’ grok
· Temp Programmers            Temporary Notes for the Programmers Chapter
 

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