William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
Some thoughts;
* At run-time this should probably be determined by parsing first the
LC_CTYPE, or LC_ALL in it's absense, or the fallback to the LANG
envvar if neither LC_ variable is defined. The codepage follows
the period, e.g. LANG=en_US.UTF-8 would be parsed as 'UTF-8'.
FYI - I pondered LC_COLLATE, but it didn't seem to particularly apply.
The obvious question, if LC_CTYPE specifies a language/no charset, then
do we drill down to LC_ALL, LANG etc?
The character set of a locale is determined by the LC_CTYPE
category. On POSIX platforms it can be retrieved by passing
the CODESET constant to nl_langinfo().
Martin
