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'''Babel''' is composed of two major parts:

 * tools to build and work with ``gettext`` message catalogs
 * a Python interface to the CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository), providing access to various locale display names, localized number and date formatting, etc.

== Quick Links ==
 * [wiki:BabelFaq Frequently asked questions]
 * [wiki:BabelPlugins Plugins and extensions for Babel]

== [wiki:Documentation Documentation] ==

 * [wiki:Documentation/index.html User Guide] ([wiki:Documentation/0.8/index.html 0.8] | [wiki:Documentation/0.9/index.html 0.9])
 * [wiki:ApiDocs API Documentation] ([wiki:ApiDocs/0.8 0.8] | [wiki:ApiDocs/0.9 0.9])

Please note that the Babel source tarballs come with comprehensive HTML documentation, encompassing both the generated API documentation and the user guide. The API documentation (courtesy of [http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/ Epydoc]) in particular is a lot better than the version you find here.

== Development ==
The Subversion repository can be accessed via:
  http://svn.edgewall.org/repos/babel/

See SubversionCheckout for instructions on how to work with a version of Babel checked out from the repository.

Discussion about the development of Babel takes place on the [MailingList mailing lists] or [IrcChannel IRC channel]. Find out more about the people working on this project on BabelTeam.

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