Re: getting locale's charset from a script

[Pablo Saratxaga <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kaixo!

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:34:02PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:

> > A missing "-f" or "-t" argument to the iconv program already denotes
> > the locale charset. This is true for both glibc iconv (since
> > glibc-2.2.2) and libiconv iconv (since libiconv-1.6).

Interesting to know that, thanks.

> Thanks. But what if I want to convert to the locale charset with
> transliteration? Is that possible with iconv?

Add //TRANSLIT to target encoding name.

But you you need to tell the encoding, "iconv -t //TRANSLIT" doesn't work.
iconv -t `locale charset`//TRANSLIT 
does, howerver (I supose any system with a working shell command "icon"
also has a working shell command "locale")

-- 
Ki ça vos våye bén,
Pablo Saratxaga

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