wrong codepage used by gettext

[vassily ragosin]

hello, 

sorta bugreport:

Gettext version: all gettext releases up to 0.13.1 have this bug. 
Concerned platforms: WinNT console, maybe Win95 console as well
Background information: As usual with Microsoft, for "historic reasons",
different codepages are used by win32 gui and win32 console when working
with Russian 8-bit text. Console window uses cp866, GUI uses cp1251 as a
native encoding. 
Description: When gettext performs the output to win32 *console* stdout,
wrong (cp1251) codepage (instead of cp866) is used for Russian locale. As a
result, localized messages output to win32 console from gettext-enable
console programs are not usable, because most of the mature Russian-speaking
population do not have the ability of builtin libiconv in their brains to be
able to decipher wrong codepage messages on the fly.
Solutions: gettext need to convert text to cp866 when output is on windows
console stdout or when trying to  set a title of win32 console with a
localized russian string.
Patches: sorry. 

resourcefully yours,
vassily

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