-contains the header (msgid ""; normal .mo catalogs do {\bf not} contain it,
-you must remove the line with {\it fuzzy}!), it checks the charset. If the
-charset is "alien" on the platform the program is currently running (e.g.
-any of ISO encodings under Windows or CP12XX under Unix) it uses
-\helpref{wxEncodingConverter::GetPlatformEquivalents}{wxencodingconvertergetplatformequivalents}
-to obtain an encoding that is more common on this platform and converts
-the message catalog to this encoding. Note that it does {\bf not} check
-for presence of this encoding! It only assumes that it is always better to
-have strings in platform native encoding than in an encoding that is rarely
-(if ever) used.
-
-The behaviour described above is disabled by default.
-You must set {\it bConvertEncoding} to TRUE in
-\helpref{wxLocale constructor}{wxlocaledefctor} in order to enable
-runtime encoding conversion.
+contains a correct header, it checks the charset. The catalog is then converted
+to the charset used (see
+\helpref{wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding}{wxlocalegetsystemencoding} and
+\helpref{wxLocale::GetSystemEncodingName}{wxlocalegetsystemencodingname}) by
+the user's operating system. This is the default behaviour of the
+\helpref{wxLocale}{wxlocale} class; you can disable it by {\bf not} passing
+{\tt wxLOCALE\_CONV\_ENCODING} to \helpref{wxLocale::Init}{wxlocaleinit}.
+
+\wxheading{Non-English strings or 8-bit characters in the source code}
+
+By convention, you should only use characters without diacritics (i.e. 7-bit
+ASCII strings) for msgids in the source code and write them in English.
+
+If you port software to wxWindows, you may be confronted with legacy source
+code containing non-English string literals. Instead of translating the strings
+in the source code to English and putting the original strings into message
+catalog, you may configure wxWidgets to use non-English msgids and translate to
+English using message catalogs:
+
+\begin{enumerate}
+\item{If you use the program {\tt xgettext} to extract the strings from
+the source code, specify the option {\tt --from-code=<source code charset>}.}
+\item{Specify the source code language and charset as arguments to
+\helpref{wxLocale::AddCatalog}{wxlocaleaddcatalog}. For example:
+\begin{verbatim}
+locale.AddCatalog(_T("myapp"),
+ wxLANGUAGE_GERMAN, _T("iso-8859-1"));
+\end{verbatim}
+}
+\end{enumerate}