[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Denis Barbier) writes: > Unfortunately situation is much more complex (you must check LC_ALL and > LC_CTYPE variables too), the simplest solution is to run 'locale charmap' > to retrieve the current encoding.
In C program, nl_langinfo(CODESET) works reliably. Though the function is mandated by XPG5 (X/Open Portability Guide, Issue 5), some UNIX variants lack it. (Since GNU libc supports it, dpkg and so on can safely use this.) --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/

