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On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 23:29, Robert Buck <buck.robert.j@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is gettext portable? Or is it only POSIX? If it's not portable, have
> you considered using ICU instead as it is the best of class solution
> for I18N/L10N?

Yes it's portable. libintl or libraries that provide compatible
interfaces are available on every platform Git is.

ICU is not a gettext replacement, it's a Unicode processing library, I
don't think it has any gettext-like features. In any case it would be
a huge dependency for the service it would provide.