10.6 gawk Can Speak Your Language

As of version 3.1, gawk itself has been internationalized using the GNU gettext package. (GNU gettext is described in complete detail in @xref{Top}.) (GNU gettext is described in complete detail in GNU gettext tools.) As of this writing, the latest version of GNU gettext is version 0.10.37.

If a translation of gawk's messages exists, then gawk produces usage messages, warnings, and fatal errors in the local language.

On systems that do not use version 2 (or later) of the GNU C library, you should configure gawk with the `--with-included-gettext' option before compiling and installing it. See section B.2.2 Additional Configuration Options, for more information.