From: Karsten Blees <bl...@dcon.de> Git on native Windows exclusively uses UTF-8 for console output (both with MinTTY and native Console windows). Gettext uses setlocale() to determine the output encoding for translated text, however, MSVCRT's setlocale() doesn't support UTF-8. As a result, translated text is encoded in system encoding (GetAPC()), and non-ASCII chars are mangled in console output.
Use gettext's bind_textdomain_codeset() to force the encoding to UTF-8 on native Windows. In this developers' setup, HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H is apparently defined, but we *really* want to override the locale_charset() here. Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <bl...@dcon.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> --- gettext.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/gettext.c b/gettext.c index d4021d690c..d8423e5c41 100644 --- a/gettext.c +++ b/gettext.c @@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ #ifndef NO_GETTEXT # include <locale.h> # include <libintl.h> -# ifdef HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H +# ifdef GIT_WINDOWS_NATIVE +# define locale_charset() "UTF-8" +# elif defined HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H # include <libcharset.h> # else # include <langinfo.h> -- gitgitgadget
