On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 02:46:16PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 02:28:05PM +0300, Amit Roseberger wrote:
> > Hi List.
> > I am interested to know what's the default encoding my system use (for 
> > example when I am saving a file with vi).
> 
> Depends on what you set it. Changes from distro to distro, and may
> change on install time.
> 
> What is the output of 'locale' ?

Run 'locale charmap' to see your current charset.

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Side note: LC_CTYPE can give you a hint, but since it can be an arbitrary
name (given you compile it yourself with localedef), the only certain
way of knowing is 'locale charmap' (and nl_langinfo(CODESET), for the
coders among you).




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