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Re: how to determine codeset of the current locale?



hi,

>  How can I determine the codeset of the current locale within a shell
>  script in order to supply the missing second option on NetBSD < 5?
>

use locale(1) -k charmap (...unfortunately undocumented in man 1 locale).

$ locale -k charmap | sed -E 's/^charmap="(.+)"$/\1/'

very truly yours.
-- 
Takehiko NOZAKI<takehiko.nozaki%gmail.com@localhost>


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