Re: UTF-8 fonts

["Nadav Har'El" <nyh@math.technion.ac.il>]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002, Peter Stephenson wrote about "Re: UTF-8 fonts":
> > > - determining whether the terminal is actually in UTF-8 mode, probably
> > >   from the locale
> > 
> > Impossible. Local names are just arbitrary chosen strings; there is no
> > "character set code" defined in any locale definition, at least on Unix.
> 
> Read the document at the link I gave which suggests otherwise.  However,
> I now think we can in any case leave this to the mb* suite to decide.

Here's a piece of code I used in one of my programs to tell whether the
user's terminal is in utf8 mode, based on the locale:

        setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");
        is_utf8= !strcmp(nl_langinfo(CODESET),"UTF-8");


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