Acknowledgments

Extensive use has obviously been made of the GNU gettext manual in preparing this document. I have also been helped by an article in the Linux Journal [3].

This work is part of the project for enabling the use of Oriya under Linux. I thank my uncle, N. M. Pattnaik, for conceiving of the project. We have all benefited from the discussions amidst the group of people working on this project. On the particular issue of translation, the help of H. R. Pansari, A. Nayak, and M. Chand is much appreciated.