Wed, 01 Nov 2000 09:32:55 +0000, Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze:

> The user (not programmer!) does this by picking the right locale:

Does it work with iconv and nl_langinfo(CODESET), i.e. does
nl_langinfo(CODESET) include this information? I hope yes.
I like transliteration if it's selectable by the user.

> I think, the external representation selectable by the user should
> include transliteration and it should be done in wcrtomb() if the
> user wants it.

As it has been pointed out, wcrtomb is not appropriate for conversion
from Unicode (or other known charset), because wchar_t can be any
encoding. Please don't tell me that iconv is no longer appropriate
for the conversion between Unicode and the local charset :-)

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