[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] charset conversion for help messages

[Tobias Diedrich]

Reimar Döffinger wrote:

> > What I'd like even more is some kind of autodetection of output charset
> > (based on LC_* settings), which of course could be overridden by
> > --charset. And also if *.charset is missing default to ISO-8859-1.
> 
> Detection based on LC_* settings seems very unreliable, as well as
> defaulting to ISO... Getting a .charset file should be no problem for
> all languages that are actively maintained...

"locale charmap" should be quite reliable...
(It's a pity it isn't documented in the locale manpage)

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