Re: Non-ASCII characters in file names

[Jan Larres <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Rich Felker (dalias@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> BTW looking for “UTF-8” in the locale string is a bad idea since UTF-8
> is not necessarily a “special” encoding but may be the “native”
> encoding for the selected language. nl_langinfo(CODESET) is the only
> reliable determination and I doubt emacs provides any direct way of
> accessing it. :(

AFAIK 'locale charmap' should do the same thing. At least that's what the
man page of nl_langinfo states.

Jan

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