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Date:      Thu, 5 Feb 1998 06:25:01 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        j_mini@efn.org
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: character-set information for terminals.
Message-ID:  <199802050625.XAA07124@usr08.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980204123632.41455@micron.mini.net> from "Jonathan Mini" at Feb 4, 98 12:36:32 pm

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>   Does anybody know how you determine what font/character-set a given TTY is
> using?  AFAICT, it is contained in the termcap database, but on examination,
> I can't find any immediatly obvious way to determining this. 

It's in the user's environment with the "TERM" environment variable;
it's the variable that start with "LC_" and "LOCALE"... 8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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