Re: Detecting UTF-8 Locale Question

From: Jungshik Shin (jshin@mailaps.org)
Date: Wed Mar 26 2003 - 02:35:30 EST

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    Muhammad Asif wrote:

    > My initial plan for finding out about the current locale is that the
    > program will, at start up, look at the LC_CTYPE environment variable. If
    > that variable is defined and contains the substring "UTF-8" or regex-able

     After calling setlocale(LC_ALL, ""), you should use nl_langinfo(CODESET)
    when/where available. **Only** if it's not available, you have to resort to
     examining LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, and LANG env. variables in that order.

    > xterm didn't handle Indic or RTL scripts)).

      It doesn't yet (but it does support Thai and Hangul Conjoining Jamos
    along with up-to-two diacritical marks for Latin/Cyrillic/Greek alphabets).
    You may try mlterm for Indic scripts. See also Markus Kuhn's FAQ on
    Linux and Unicode (google will get you right there.)

    Jungshik Shin

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