gettext
brew install gettextGNU internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) library
https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
License: GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later
Development: Pull requests
Formula JSON API: /api/formula/gettext.json
Formula code: gettext.rb on GitHub
Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:
| macOS on Apple Silicon |
golden gate | ✅ |
|---|---|---|
| tahoe | ✅ | |
| sequoia | ✅ | |
| Linux | ARM64 | ✅ |
| x86_64 | ✅ |
Current versions:
| stable | ✅ | 1.0 |
Depends on:
| json-c | 0.19 | JSON parser for C |
| libunistring | 1.5 | C string library for manipulating Unicode strings |
Uses from macOS: curl, libxml2, ncurses
Binaries:
autopoint,
envsubst,
gettext,
gettext.sh,
gettextize,
msgattrib,
msgcat,
msgcmp,
msgcomm,
msgconv,
msgen,
msgexec,
msgfilter,
msgfmt,
msggrep,
msginit,
msgmerge,
msgpre,
msgunfmt,
msguniq,
ngettext,
po-fetch,
printf_gettext,
printf_ngettext,
recode-sr-latin,
spit,
xgettext
GitHub Packages downloads:
| Last 30 days | 914,604 |
|---|---|
| Downloads | 77,769,442 |
| Analytics install events (30 days) | 60,369 |
| Downloads / install events (30 days) | 15.2× |
Source: GitHub Packages, fetched 2026-11-11T00:50:07Z. Analytics dates: 2026-10-12 to 2026-11-11. Totals exclude downloads from Bintray before the migration to GitHub Packages. Downloads and install attempts measure different things; the difference does not count analytics opt-outs. Definitions and limitations.
Analytics:
| 30 days | 90 days | 365 days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Installs | 60,363 | 180,423 | 1,641,235 |
Installs (--HEAD) | 6 | 17 | 154 |
| Installs on Request | 4,557 | 13,805 | 103,881 |
Installs on Request (--HEAD) | 1 | 11 | 115 |
| Build Errors | 226 |