Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 06:56:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: j_mini@efn.org Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: character-set information for terminals. Message-ID: <199802050656.XAA08654@usr08.primenet.com> 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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