From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:09:58 GMT
Subject: Re: Odd encoding issue with UTF-8 + gettext yields ? on non-ASCII
Message-ID: <20100830140958.GE2315@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <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?