BIND_TEXTDOMAIN_CODESET(3)                                                                            BIND_TEXTDOMAIN_CODESET(3)



NAME
       bind_textdomain_codeset - set encoding of message translations

SYNOPSIS
       #include <libintl.h>

       char * bind_textdomain_codeset (const char * domainname,
                                       const char * codeset);

DESCRIPTION
       The bind_textdomain_codeset function sets the output codeset for message catalogs for domain domainname.

       A message domain is a set of translatable msgid messages. Usually, every software package has its own message domain.

       By  default, the gettext family of functions returns translated messages in the locale's character encoding, which can be
       retrieved as nl_langinfo(CODESET). The need for calling bind_textdomain_codeset arises for programs 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.

       domainname must be a non-empty string.

       If codeset is not NULL, it must be a valid encoding name which can be used for the iconv_open function. The  bind_textdo-
       main_codeset  function  sets the output codeset for message catalogs belonging to domain domainname to codeset. The func-
       tion makes copies of the argument strings as needed.

       If codeset is NULL, the function returns the previously set codeset for domain domainname. The default is NULL,  denoting
       the locale's character encoding.

RETURN VALUE
       If  successful,  the  bind_textdomain_codeset  function returns the current codeset for domain domainname, after possibly
       changing it. The resulting string is valid until the next bind_textdomain_codeset call for the same domainname  and  must
       not  be modified or freed. If a memory allocation failure occurs, it sets errno to ENOMEM and returns NULL. If no codeset
       has been set for domain domainname, it returns NULL.

ERRORS
       The following error can occur, among others:

       ENOMEM Not enough memory available.

BUGS
       The return type ought to be const char *, but is char * to avoid warnings in C code predating ANSI C.

SEE ALSO
       gettext(3),  dgettext(3),  dcgettext(3),  ngettext(3),  dngettext(3),   dcngettext(3),   textdomain(3),   nl_langinfo(3),
       iconv_open(3)



GNU gettext 0.18.1                                          May 2001                                  BIND_TEXTDOMAIN_CODESET(3)