Re: charset for a locale

[andrew at pimlott dot ne dot mediaone dot net (Andrew Pimlott)]

On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 05:28:59PM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> #include <langinfo.h>
> 
> ...
> prinf ("%s\n", nl_langinfo(CODESET));
> ...
> 

Thank you!  FWIW, CODESET is not documented in the main GNU libc 2.2
documentation for nl_langinfo, but it is mentioned in the gettext
documentation.  Also, the nl_langinfo documentation says

    in addition to the numeric and monetary formatting information,
    information from the `LC_TIME' and `LC_MESSAGES' categories is
    available.

with no mention of LC_CTYPE data.

Thanks again,
Andrew

PS.  It would be convenient if a "--long" option to locale(1) would
dump these details.  Or perhaps there should be a separate command
interface to nl_langinfo.