note 6362 modified in GNU Gettext by ronabop

For all the confused folks: gettext is GNU's project, it's main purpose is to allow easy internationalization of programs (that is, translation of messages to other languages). Check http://www.gnu.org/manual/gettext/html_node/gettext_toc.html for details about the library itself. Also, read gettext description in this manual to see what it has to do with PHP. Basicly, instead of printing your messages in the usual way in PHP code, you can use gettext calls to substitute messages in other languages on the fly http://www.php.net/manual/gnu-gettext.php