Bruno: > > If it doesn't already do so, perhaps the iconv command should have an > > option to tell you the charset of the current locale, as one of the > > most likely reasons for wanting to know it is in order to use it as an > > argument to iconv. So you could also have a pseudo-charset "locale", > > as in iconv -f locale -t utf-8. > > A missing "-f" or "-t" argument to the iconv program already denotes > the locale charset. This is true for both glibc iconv (since > glibc-2.2.2) and libiconv iconv (since libiconv-1.6).
Thanks. But what if I want to convert to the locale charset with transliteration? Is that possible with iconv? Edmund - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/