Re: charset for a locale

[Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>]

andrew@pimlott.ne.mediaone.net (Andrew Pimlott) writes:

> I hope this is an ok place to ask this question.
> 
> I have read the glibc 2.2 documentation on charset handling and
> locales, and a very basic concept still escapes me.  How can I
> figure out the default multibyte encoding for the current locale
> (ie, the encoding used to interpret the char type)?  It seems that I
> can use the mbtowc functions to convert any string to Unicode (well,
> this assumes I know the wchar encoding, but in practice this is
> easier), but can't actually query the multibyte encoding used by
> mbtowc.  This would seem further to imply that mbtowc has
> functionality that cannot be obtained with the iconv functions,
> which I find strange.
> 
> Did I miss something?  Is there a reason that most people don't need
> this functionality?

#include <langinfo.h>

...
prinf ("%s\n", nl_langinfo(CODESET));
...

Andreas
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