#ifndef NO_GETTEXT
# include <locale.h>
# include <libintl.h>
-# ifdef HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H
+# ifdef GIT_WINDOWS_NATIVE
+
+static const char *locale_charset(void)
+{
+ const char *env = getenv("LC_ALL"), *dot;
+
+ if (!env || !*env)
+ env = getenv("LC_CTYPE");
+ if (!env || !*env)
+ env = getenv("LANG");
+
+ if (!env)
+ return "UTF-8";
+
+ dot = strchr(env, '.');
+ return !dot ? env : dot + 1;
+}
+
+# elif defined HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H
# include <libcharset.h>
# else
# include <langinfo.h>