In Python 2.4 the lgettext() family of functions were
introduced. The intention of these functions is to provide an
alternative which is more compliant with the current
implementation of GNU gettext. Unlike gettext(), which
returns strings encoded with the same codeset used in the
translation file, lgettext() will return strings
encoded with the preferred system encoding, as returned by
locale.getpreferredencoding(). Also notice that
Python 2.4 introduces new functions to explicitly choose
the codeset used in translated strings. If a codeset is explicitly
set, even lgettext() will return translated strings in
the requested codeset, as would be expected in the GNU gettext
implementation.
