Re: prevent encoding conversion recursive error

I wrote:
> This does not look real easy to fix.  Who's up for reimplementing
> gettext and a few other pieces from scratch?

However, I did find


http://gnu.miscellaneousmirror.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Charset-conversion-in-gettext.html#Charset-conversion-in-gettext

which leads to the question "why aren't we using
bind_textdomain_codeset() to tell gettext what character set it should
produce"?

            regards, tom lane