Re: determining locale's character set

[Robert Brady <rwb197@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Markus Kuhn wrote:

> For more portable applications and those who want to bypass setlocale()
> entirely, I would suggest as a simpler alternative something like
> 
>   if ((s = getenv("LC_ALL")) ||
>       (s = getenv("LC_CTYPE")) ||
>       (s = getenv("LANG"))) {
>     if (strstr(s, "UTF-8") || strstr(s, "utf-8")) {
>       /* let's do it in UTF-8 */
>       ...
>     }
>   }

This breaks when we move locales to be UTF-8 by default. (which will
hopefully happen at some point this decade). I'd suggest doing a
combiniation of langinfo and if that fails resorting to the above.

-- 
Robert

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