Hi Valdis,
There is no standard of which I'm aware for finding out the local
character set.
Look at the $LANG environment variable, that's probably a good start
on most systems. The various LC_ environment variables if you want to
do more localization work.
LANG should only be used if the LC_* ones you need are absent.
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html#tag_08_02
Cheers,
Ralph.
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