Internationalization through GNU gettext

[Dejan Lekic]

On Friday, 3 October 2025 at 22:56:44 UTC, Bruno Haible wrote:
> GNU gettext version 0.25 and newer supports the D language.
>
> This was announced in 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-05/msg00000.html.
>
> In detail:
>   - It ships with a library libintl_d.a, that contains the 
> runtime code for using GNU gettext message catalogs in the D 
> programming language.
>   - The 'xgettext' program supports extracting localizable 
> messages from D code into a POT file.
>   - When doing so, 'xgettext' adds 'd-format' markers for D 
> format strings.
>   - The msgfmt program, when invoked as 'msgfmt -c', verifies 
> the syntax of translations of D format strings.
>   - A new example 'hello-d' has been added, that can be used as 
> a starting point for internationalized packages.
>
> This support of the D language follows all the good usage 
> patterns from the other programming languages.

Amazing! Thanks Bruno! Do you mind writing an article or two 
about it that could serve as a guide? Or even better demonstrate 
it at the next beerconf that is happening monthly!?