Nick Ing-Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>On systems where langinfo(CODESET) does not work, you can consider to use
>>the following emulator routine, which extracts encoding names from
>>environment variables:
>>
>>  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c

For perl I think that we would want to treat "C" and "POSIX" as meaning
iso-8859-1 rather than ASCII.


>>
>>The return values of langinfo(CODESET) are unfortunately not yet
>>standardized. For UTF-8, fortunately, every known POSIX platform uses
>>"UTF-8" and nothing else, but there is some variation for older
>>encodings, and the normalization routine
>>
>>  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/norm_charmap.c
>
>Can we have your permision to use those code fragments under perl's license
>terms?
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Nick Ing-Simmons
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