From man bind_textdomain_codeset: By default, the gettext family of functions returns translated messages in the locale's character encoding, which can be retrieved as nl_lang- info(CODESET). The need for calling bind_textdomain_codeset arises for
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517595#c21 --- Comment #21 from Gabriele Mohr <gs@suse.com> 2013-12-05 10:58:13 UTC --- The description in link above is misleading. The "desired output character set" is not related to the font but to the character encoding, e.g. UTF-8, UTF-16 or ASCII. The function "bind_textdomain_codeset (const char * domainname, const char * codeset)" with 'codeset' set to "utf8" is called in libyui-ncurses (and same way in libyui-qt). pro- grams which store strings in a locale independent way (e.g. UTF-8) and want to avoid an extra character set conversion on the returned translated messages. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.