On 2013-07-19 15:33:55 +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 03:22:33PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2013-07-09 20:21:33 +0200, Branko Čibej wrote: > > > Unlike on Windows and Mac OS (the latter at least with HFS+), the is no > > > notion of native filesystem encoding on other Unix-like platforms. The > > > best we can do is look at the locale settings, specifically, LC_CTYPE. > > > > No, the best you can do is to let the user choose. LC_CTYPE typically > > specifies the encoding used by the *terminal*, > > No, it determines the character set used by various standard C library > functions that deal with (usually single-byte) characters.
No, how C library functions behave depend on the current locale, which is "C" by default. A program needs to call setlocale() to change the current locale. Obviously it must not do that blindly: a program may need to deal with different encodings and so on... -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
