all builds are now with wxWidgets-2.9.0, we are now using UTF-8,

added support for language translation file locale/<lang>/LC_MESSAGES/bitcoin.mo 
-- version 0.2.2

util.h

@@ -340,10 +340,11 @@ void skipspaces(T& it)
         ++it;
 }
 
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-
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+inline const char* wxGetTranslation(const char* psz)
+{
+    // Return translated UTF-8 const char*
+    return wxGetTranslation(wxString(psz, wxConvUTF8)).utf8_str();
+}