Version 1.23 - 24 Jan 2013

* New message retrieval backend Locale::gettext_dumb(3pm) which produces
  translations even, when the corresponding locale is not present in
  the system.

* Fixed a bug where the Perl backend under certain circumstances clobbered
  the environment variable LC_ALL.

* Avoid test failures by skipping all tests that depend on the de_AT
  locale, when that locale is not installed.

* Bugs fixed:
  https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82856

Version 1.22 - 24 Jan 2013

* Version 1.22 outsmarted PAUSE (the CPAN upload facility) and had to
  be removed.

Version 1.21 - 15 Jan 2013

* Environment variables LANGUAGE and LANG are interpreted in the same way
  in the XS and the pure Perl version.

* Package design closer to GNU standards.

* If present, File::ShareDir is used for searching message catalogs.

* Cleaned up distribution.

* Bugs fixed:
  https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78341
  https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81315
  https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79461
  https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71509
  https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49744
  https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49744
  https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64284

Version 1.20 - 29 Jue 2009

* Test suite revamped.  Failures are now explained better, and it should
  be easier to debug them remotely.

* Bugs fixed:
  https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49744

Version 1.19 - 19 Jun 2009

* New context functions now work with Perl 5.6.2.

* N__() now mirrors its argument in scalar context for convenience.

Version 1.18 - 26 May 2009

* Cosmetic change: The version number is now both in Locale::Messages
  and in Locale::TextDomain to work around a shortcoming of the
  PAUSE indexer.

Version 1.17 - 25 May 2009

* New context support, supporting .po files with msgctxt, and 
  appropriate supporting calls (*pgettext calls) under both
  gettext_pp and gettext_xs. TextDomain.pm received corresponding
  calls: __p __px __np __npx __xnp.

* New module Locale::Util with some utility functions, especially for
  web development.  Attention, this is still alpha code!

* Try to warn about wrong usage of the tied hashes in
  Locale::TextDomain.

* Minor bugfixes

Version 1.16 - 28 Sep 2005

* New function Locale::Messages::bind_textdomain_filter() allows you 
  to register an output filter as a callback.  You can use this
  feature for example to set the utf-8 flag on translated string when
  you are sure that the output is actually utf-8.

* New function Locale::Messages::turn_utf_8_on().

* various minor bug fixes.

Version 1.15 - 1 Sep 2005

* Workarounds and bugfixes for misconfigured Solaris systems

* Fixed the completely broken simplecal example

* Added section about non-ascii msgids to the POD of Locale::Messages

Version 1.14 - 11 Aug 2005

* Oops: forgot to update the version check in Locale::Messages

* The XS version builds easier on *BSD systems now

Version 1.12 - 11 Aug 2005

* Minor bugfixes

* The test scripts now check whether the needed locales are installed

Version 1.11 - 11 Jun 2004

* Version 1.11 is a minor bugfix release

Version 1.10 - 12 Jan 2004

* XS version now compiles under Windows (GNU gettext and libiconv required,
  build with "perl Makefile.PL DIR=gettext_xs", see README.win32 for details)

Version 1.09 - 29 Dec 2003

* check version match with XS module

* in pure Perl version, use user supplied locale name when guessing
  the output character set

* corrections for Atari character maps

Version 1.08 - 30 Nov 2003

* fixed bug #4512 on https://rt.cpan.org/ (reported by unknown guest)

Version 1.07 - 28 Nov 2003

* bug with charset detection via I18N::Langinfo fixed

* new function Locale::Messages::turn_utf_8_off()

Version 1.06 - 24 Nov 2003

* fixed warning/error under Solaris 8 when I18N::Langinfo is not available

* simplified sample packaging

Version 1.05 - 10 Oct 2003

* fixed compatibility problems with gettext libraries under Solaris 8
  and higher

Version 1.04 - 09 Oct 2003

* support for language chains in $LANGUAGE (e. g. "fr_BE:fr:de")

* performance tweaks for Locale::gettext_pp

* do not clobber $@ in Locale::gettext_pp

Version 1.03 - 15 Sep 2003

* alternative XS implemenation of gettext() and friends (outperforms
  pure Perl version by factor 10-15)

Version 1.02 - 04 Sep 2003

* bugfixes for systems that lack both /usr/share/locale and
  /usr/local/share/locale

* compatibility tweaks for Perl 5.005

Version 1.01 - 19 Aug 2003

* bugfixes

* compatibility tweaks for MS-DOS