This is a preliminary release of NLS-utils.

The package contains the following programs:

gencat    - generate message catalogs (from libc)
xtract    - extract messages from a program (from libc)
            see the files README.gencat and Copyright.gencat
dspcat    - currently not implemented
dspmsg    - display a message from a message catalog
locale    - show informations about the current locale
localedef - compile locale definition files

You will need bison, a recent flex that understands the -P flag
and GNU-make to compile this packages. It currently compiles only
under Linux, but may support the GNU-libc in the future.

To install the programs, type make. To install the programs and
the man-pages, type make install. If you have the
BOGUS-distribution installed, I've provided a Notes-file for you.

You need to create you own locale definition files or may grab
one of the existing ones. If you country isn't supported now, ask
me, because I have some definitions that I can't compile until I
got the right charmap files.

For a list of bugs and missing features read the file TODO.

For some examples how to use the programs, have a look into the
examples subdir.

Jochen Hein  (Hein@Student.TU-Clausthal.de)