Tell gettext that we want to have the messages in the UTF-8 encoding, to

avoid the extra conversion that gettext would otherwise perform (from the
message encoding which is UTF-8 to the current locale encoding).

WINGs/wapplication.c

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ WMInitializeApplication(char *applicationName, int *argc, char **argv)
         bindtextdomain("WINGs", getenv("NLSPATH"));
     else
         bindtextdomain("WINGs", LOCALEDIR);
+    bind_textdomain_codeset("WINGs", "UTF-8");
 #endif
 
     _WINGS_progname = argv[0];