From b5a0918160f7dfabeb2b4e9971f71df9c2a0685e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Donovan Jimenez <donovan.jimenez@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 14:33:59 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] issue #11: calling setlocale at init for TRANSLIT

---
 converter.go | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/converter.go b/converter.go
index 2a40706..d0fc04f 100644
--- a/converter.go
+++ b/converter.go
@@ -6,11 +6,21 @@ package iconv
 #cgo windows LDFLAGS: -liconv
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <iconv.h>
+#include <locale.h>
+
+// called by init, seems to be necessary for TRANSLIT to work
+void initLocale() {
+	setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
+}
 */
 import "C"
 import "syscall"
 import "unsafe"
 
+func init() {
+	C.initLocale()
+}
+
 type Converter struct {
 	context C.iconv_t
 	open    bool