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Re: Displaying characters in user's locale


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Displaying characters in user's locale
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 00:35:18 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

> All I can think of to base the default on the current locale, because
> that's the only information we've got about what the user desires.
> E.g., if the locale is "C" (or, equivalently, "POSIX", of course), the
> target should be plain 7-bit ASCII.  If the locale is *.UTF-8, then the
> target should be UTF-8.  Etc.  (I don't know all the locale names used
> in this context, and can't find anything that seems like a comprehensive
> list, although it must be out there somewhere.)

nl_langinfo(CODESET) returns the name of the locale's character
encoding.

Andreas.

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