Babel

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(released on March 17th 2011)

- Backport r493-494: documentation typo fixes.
- Make the CLDR import script work with Python 2.7.
- Fix various typos.
- Fixed Python 2.3 compatibility (:trac:`146`, :trac:`233`).
- Sort output of list-locales.
- Make the POT-Creation-Date of the catalog being updated equal to
POT-Creation-Date of the template used to update (:trac:`148`).
- Use a more explicit error message if no option or argument (command) is
passed to pybabel (:trac:`81`).
- Keep the PO-Revision-Date if it is not the default value (:trac:`148`).
- Make --no-wrap work by reworking --width's default and mimic xgettext's
behaviour of always wrapping comments (:trac:`145`).
- Fixed negative offset handling of Catalog._set_mime_headers (:trac:`165`).
- Add --project and --version options for commandline (:trac:`173`).
- Add a __ne__() method to the Local class.
- Explicitly sort instead of using sorted() and don't assume ordering
(Python 2.3 and Jython compatibility).
- Removed ValueError raising for string formatting message checkers if the
string does not contain any string formatting (:trac:`150`).
- Fix Serbian plural forms (:trac:`213`).
- Small speed improvement in format_date() (:trac:`216`).
- Fix number formatting for locales where CLDR specifies alt or draft
items (:trac:`217`)
- Fix bad check in format_time (:trac:`257`, reported with patch and tests by
jomae)
- Fix so frontend.CommandLineInterface.run does not accumulate logging
handlers (:trac:`227`, reported with initial patch by dfraser)
- Fix exception if environment contains an invalid locale setting
(:trac:`200`)

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(released on April 6th 2010)

- Fixed the case where messages containing square brackets would break with
an unpack error.
- Backport of r467: Fuzzy matching regarding plurals should *NOT* be checked
against len(message.id) because this is always 2, instead, it's should be
checked against catalog.num_plurals (:trac:`212`).

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(released on August 25th 2008)

- Currency symbol definitions that is defined with choice patterns in the
CLDR data are no longer imported, so the symbol code will be used instead.
- Fixed quarter support in date formatting.
- Fixed a serious memory leak that was introduces by the support for CLDR
aliases in 0.9.3 (:trac:`128`).
- Locale modifiers such as "euro" are now stripped from locale identifiers
when parsing (:trac:`136`).
- The system locales "C" and "POSIX" are now treated as aliases for
"en_US_POSIX", for which the CLDR provides the appropriate data. Thanks to
Manlio Perillo for the suggestion.
- Fixed JavaScript extraction for regular expression literals (:trac:`138`)
and concatenated strings.
- The `Translation` class in `babel.support` can now manage catalogs with
different message domains, and exposes the family of `d*gettext` functions
(:trac:`137`).

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(released on July 9th 2008)

- Fixed invalid message extraction methods causing an UnboundLocalError.
- Extraction method specification can now use a dot instead of the colon to
separate module and function name (:trac:`105`).
- Fixed message catalog compilation for locales with more than two plural
forms (:trac:`95`).
- Fixed compilation of message catalogs for locales with more than two plural
forms where the translations were empty (:trac:`97`).
- The stripping of the comment tags in comments is optional now and
is done for each line in a comment.
- Added a JavaScript message extractor.
- Updated to CLDR 1.6.
- Fixed timezone calculations when formatting datetime and time values.
- Added a `get_plural` function into the plurals module that returns the
correct plural forms for a locale as tuple.
- Added support for alias definitions in the CLDR data files, meaning that
the chance for items missing in certain locales should be greatly reduced
(:trac:`68`).

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(released on February 4th 2008)

- Fixed catalogs' charset values not being recognized (:trac:`66`).
- Numerous improvements to the default plural forms.
- Fixed fuzzy matching when updating message catalogs (:trac:`82`).
- Fixed bug in catalog updating, that in some cases pulled in translations
from different catalogs based on the same template.
- Location lines in PO files do no longer get wrapped at hyphens in file
names (:trac:`79`).
- Fixed division by zero error in catalog compilation on empty catalogs
(:trac:`60`).

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(released on September 7th 2007)

- Fixed catalog updating when a message is merged that was previously simple
but now has a plural form, for example by moving from `gettext` to
`ngettext`, or vice versa.
- Fixed time formatting for 12 am and 12 pm.
- Fixed output encoding of the `pybabel --list-locales` command.
- MO files are now written in binary mode on windows (:trac:`61`).