[Boost-users] [locale] Quick questions

Hey! I have some small questions about Boost.Locale. 1. Is it safe to assume that Boost.Locale API methods (like gettext) return UTF-8 strings, or are they locale dependent? 2. I use a custom domain, but when calling gettext("...") I still get lovely English text. However, calling gettext("...", std::locale()) fixes that. Is there some way to set the default domain/locale for gettext so I can simply write gettext("...")? 3. What's the deal with the whole locale/$LANG/LC_MESSAGES/$domain.mo folder structure? I know it has Unix heritage, but why is it explicity forced? It seems like a complex structure compared to locale/$LANG-$domain.mo.