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Re: getting locale's charset from a script

Ulrich Drepper writes:
> I've implemented this
> 
> >    iconv -f utf-8 -t //TRANSLIT
> 
> This was an undefined case which gave not very nice results before.
> Now an empty string (or empty before the second slash) means use the
> locale's charset.

The next release of GNU libiconv will interpret the empty encoding
name "" and "//TRANSLIT" in the same way as glibc.

Bruno
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