"display charset" vs. Unix locales

[Michael B Allen]

On Fri, 23 May 2003, Steve Langasek wrote:

> One curious side-effect is that the default for display charset is
> "ASCII", but glibc's nl_langinfo() returns "ANSI_X3.4-1968" as the
> character set for the C locale.  This results in C locale conversions

This is because you must first initialize the locale with
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""). Then it will say ASCII. Actually it will probably
say ISO-8859-1.

Mike

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