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gettext

brew install gettext v1.0 GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later

GNU library and command-line toolkit for internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) of software.

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Essential build and runtime dependency for any project supporting multiple languages; provides msgfmt, xgettext, and other tools to extract translatable strings, manage .po/.pot files, and enable locale-aware message rendering. Most Unix/Linux projects and many CLI tools depend on gettext for multi-language support.

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ICU intltool
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