Harold, > The default behavior is not affected if the new command-line parameters > are not passed, right?
The default behavior is not affected (except bug). > Is there anyway that you can figure out the -winencoding parameter from > Windows? Benjamin's way work well. -xencoding and encoding that is specified by locale must be same. So if there were way to get encoding from locale date,it is better. It seems that nl_langinfo dosen't work. Any other ideas? Hmm. I will dig deep into this. Kensuke Matsuzaki
