Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> > Is there a way to detect if the terminal that a script is running in
>> > can display UTF-8 text?
>I think it would be helpful if terminal itself sets some environmental
>variable for this purpose.  Here is an example of such variables.
>
>TERMENCODING


 Look at Metamail's MM_CHARSET. This variable is used for indication
of _terminal_ encoding for some systems (FreeBSD from v1.1.5.1 for example ;)
and for some MUAs. Yes, this is hack and back-side effect... :)

P.S. http://www.sensi.org/~alec/man/man1/metamail.html

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