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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: character-set information for terminals.
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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 06:56:29 +0000 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <19980204223655.54686@micron.mini.net> from "Jonathan Mini" at Feb 4, 98 10:36:55 pm
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> > It's in the user's environment with the "TERM" environment variable;
> > it's the variable that start with "LC_" and "LOCALE"... 8-).
> 
>   Hmmm... hate to say it, Terry, but I can't find any systems with a LC_*
> or LOCALE environment variable on it normally -- I could set one
> explicitly, but this doesn't help me any for auto-detection.

	``By default, C programs start in the "C" locale.''

>From "man setlocale"... 8-).

	``A locale argument of NULL causes setlocale() to return
	  the current locale.''

Also from "man setlocale"... 8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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