Character set of a locale

Martin Sebor msebor@gmail.com
Fri Sep 11 03:21:00 GMT 2015


On 09/09/2015 05:39 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Is there a way to print the character set of the current locale using a
> command line tool?  “locale” does not print this information, unfortunately.
>
> I know I can get it programatically with nl_langinfo(CODESET).  It would
> just be nice to have this as a simple command-line tool (maybe one which
> also could examine locale files directly).

I believe the command 'locale -c charmap' produces the output you're
looking for.

Martin




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