GNU gettext 0.17 released

[Bruno Haible]

Download at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.17.tar.gz

New in 0.17 (compared to 0.16.1):

* License:
  The gettext related programs and tools are now licensed under the GPL
  version 3, instead of the GPL version 2. The libintl library continues
  to be licensed under LGPL.

* PO file format:
  The Project-Id-Version field in the header entry may now already be filled
  in the POT file. In this case, the translators don't need to fill it in.
  xgettext has new options --package-name and --package-version that allow
  to specify the package name and version from a Makefile.

* Colorized PO files:
  The msgcat program has new options --color and --style that produce a
  colorized PO file output, where keywords, strings, comments, or format
  directives can be highlighted.  See the documentation section
  "Highlighting parts of PO files" for more info. Attached a sample output
  using the default style.

* gettextize now has a --po-dir option that allows several PO directories to
  be updated all together.

* Programming languages support:
  - Contexts (msgctxt) are now also supported for Java and C#.
  - C# with Qt: The support for Qt format strings has been updated for Qt 4.
  - C++ with KDE:
    xgettext has a new option --kde that triggers the recognition and marking
    of KDE 4 format strings.

* Autoconf macros:
  - A new macro AM_XGETTEXT_OPTION can be used as an alternative to modifying
    po/Makevars.

* libgettextpo library:
  - New functions are available for querying the list of supported format
    types.
  - The functions po_message_comments and po_message_extracted_comments
    return a multiline string where each line no longer starts with a redundant
    space. The leading space in every comment line is now stripped while
    reading the PO file.
  - Conversely, when you pass a multiline string to the function
    po_message_set_comments or po_message_set_extracted_comments, you normally
    don't pass a space at the beginning of each line, because such spaces are
    no longer trimmed during output.

* Documentation:
  - The "Users" chapter has been completely rewritten.
  - New section "Highlighting parts of PO files".
  - A complete example showing the use of GNU gettext in Java with the Qt/Jambi
    GUI toolkit has been added.

Enjoy!