Re: gettext usage in libraries

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper redhat com>]

Gediminas Paulauskas <menesis delfi lt> writes:

> 2. If .po file is in charset other than utf-8, translations are got in
> wrong charset. To avoid that, you can call
> 
> 	bind_textdomain_codeset (GETTEXT_PACKAGE, "UTF-8")

You never ever should call this function.  Anywhere.  It is a hack
which is used only in broken environments.  The .po files (and .mo
files) contain all the information needed to make the correct
conversions.

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