CharacterSet.getCharset

Obtains the character set for the [current locale]setlocale; you might use this character set as an argument to g_convert(), to convert from the current locale's encoding to some other encoding. (Frequently g_locale_to_utf8() and g_locale_from_utf8() are nice shortcuts, though.)

On Windows the character set returned by this function is the so-called system default ANSI code-page. That is the character set used by the "narrow" versions of C library and Win32 functions that handle file names. It might be different from the character set used by the C library's current locale.

On Linux, the character set is found by consulting nl_langinfo() if available. If not, the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG and CHARSET are queried in order.

The return value is %TRUE if the locale's encoding is UTF-8, in that case you can perhaps avoid calling g_convert().

The string returned in @charset is not allocated, and should not be freed.

struct CharacterSet
static
bool
getCharset
(
out string charset
)

Parameters

charset string

return location for character set name, or %NULL.

Return Value

Type: bool

%TRUE if the returned charset is UTF-8

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