[email protected] (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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