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Re: Testing for UTF-8 tty mode

To get this slightly more ontopic, can people please use code similar to
this for extracting the charset from LC_CTYPE, which is better than
cracking it open yourself...

#include <langinfo.h>

#ifdef _NL_CTYPE_CODESET_NAME
  charset = nl_langinfo (_NL_CTYPE_CODESET_NAME);
#elif CODESET
  charset = nl_langinfo(CODESET);
#endif

This has the advantage that if I defined, e.g. "en_GB" to be an alias for
"en_GB.UTF-8", it would detect UTF-8ness then.

Note that this will require setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); or similar to be done
previously.

-- 
Robert

The ASCII Consortium : dragging character encoding kicking and screaming
into the 20th century!       <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~rwb197/ascii/>

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