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gettext charset-conversion does not work


From: Andreas Metzler
Subject: gettext charset-conversion does not work
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 16:00:56 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.3.27i

Hello,
This is probably a very simple error but I'm unable to get gettext's
automatic charset-conversion to work.

-------------------------------
#include <locale.h>
#define LOCALEDIR "/tmp/mylocales"
#include <libintl.h>
#define N_(Str) Str
#define _(Text) gettext (Text)
#define PACKAGE "gettexttest"
#include <langinfo.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
      typedef const char constext;
      constext txt_blahfasel[] = N_("Oesterreich");

      setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
      bindtextdomain(PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
      textdomain(PACKAGE);

      printf ("%s\n", _(txt_blahfasel));

      printf ("charset is %s\n", nl_langinfo(CODESET));
      exit(0);
}
-------------------------------
In the po-file (written in latin1, the charset for de_DE) for de_DE
Oesterreich is translated to "Österreich", and this works well with
the de_DE-locale, but not with de_DE.UTF-8 in an unicode-xterm,
the program still prints char 214 (Hex D6) (Ö in latin1,
non-displayable char in UTF-8).

I think my system is ok, afaict mutt is using gettext's automatic
charset conversion successfully, de_DE and de_DE.UTF-8 are supported
locales on my system.

System-info:
Debian GNU/Linux woody/testing
gettext 0.10.40-3, libc6 2.2.5-3, mutt 1.3.27-2.

Please Cc me on follow-ups.
              tia, cu andreas



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