> > This was a problem I was hoping to fix before anyone noticed.  I think
> > that shared message catalogs are an important feature, because a full
> > set would be quite large.
> 
> Even with the fixes (which I deleted) that you propose, won't it still
> be hard to share catalogs between differing versions of the libraries
> on differing machines?

Nope.  My current code stores the indexes in big endian format.  Little
endian machines will swap them as the message catalog is read in.  I've
measured no significant slowdown from this approach.

	--jtc