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Re: Odd encoding issue with UTF-8 + gettext yields ? on non-ASCII

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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 30, 2010, 14:09 UTC
Message-ID
<20100830140958.GE2315@burratino>
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<alpine.BSF.2.00.1008301353260.95618@x.fncre.vasb>
Marcin Cieslak wrote:
> Well, in this case everybody will be force to have UTF-8 in output
> on-screen, not useful for people using ISO8859-*, KOI8-R and similar
> things...
Can't we do:
	setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");
	charset = nl_langinfo(CODESET);
	setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "C");
to allow an arbitrary character set?
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