Babel-lex

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(released on August 20th 2007)

- The `new_catalog` distutils command has been renamed to `init_catalog` for
consistency with the command-line frontend.
- Added compilation of message catalogs to MO files (:trac:`21`).
- Added updating of message catalogs from POT files (:trac:`22`).
- Support for significant digits in number formatting.
- Apply proper "banker's rounding" in number formatting in a cross-platform
manner.
- The number formatting functions now also work with numbers represented by
Python `Decimal` objects (:trac:`53`).
- Added extensible infrastructure for validating translation catalogs.
- Fixed the extractor not filtering out messages that didn't validate against
the keyword's specification (:trac:`39`).
- Fixed the extractor raising an exception when encountering an empty string
msgid. It now emits a warning to stderr.
- Numerous Python message extractor fixes: it now handles nested function
calls within a gettext function call correctly, uses the correct line number
for multi-line function calls, and other small fixes (tickets :trac:`38` and
:trac:`39`).
- Improved support for detecting Python string formatting fields in message
strings (:trac:`57`).
- CLDR upgraded to the 1.5 release.
- Improved timezone formatting.
- Implemented scientific number formatting.
- Added mechanism to lookup locales by alias, for cases where browsers insist
on including only the language code in the `Accept-Language` header, and
sometimes even the incorrect language code.

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(released on July 2nd 2007)

- `default_locale()` would fail when the value of the `LANGUAGE` environment
variable contained multiple language codes separated by colon, as is
explicitly allowed by the GNU gettext tools. As the `default_locale()`
function is called at the module level in some modules, this bug would
completely break importing these modules on systems where `LANGUAGE` is set
that way.
- The character set specified in PO template files is now respected when
creating new catalog files based on that template. This allows the use of
characters outside the ASCII range in POT files (:trac:`17`).
- The default ordering of messages in generated POT files, which is based on
the order those messages are found when walking the source tree, is no
longer subject to differences between platforms; directory and file names
are now always sorted alphabetically.
- The Python message extractor now respects the special encoding comment to be
able to handle files containing non-ASCII characters (:trac:`23`).
- Added ``N_`` (gettext noop) to the extractor's default keywords.
- Made locale string parsing more robust, and also take the script part into
account (:trac:`27`).
- Added a function to list all locales for which locale data is available.
- Added a command-line option to the `pybabel` command which prints out all
available locales (:trac:`24`).
- The name of the command-line script has been changed from just `babel` to
`pybabel` to avoid a conflict with the OpenBabel project (:trac:`34`).

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(released on June 20th 2007)

- First public release