get_charset
Description:
Obtains the character set for the current locale; you might use this character set as an argument to convert, to convert from the current locale's encoding to some other encoding.
(Frequently 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 to_string if available. If not, the environment variables `LC_ALL`, `LC_CTYPE`, `LANG` and `CHARSET` are queried in order. to_string returns the C locale if no locale has been loaded by setlocale.
The return value is true if the locale's encoding is UTF-8, in that case you can perhaps avoid calling convert.
The string returned in charset is not allocated, and should not be freed.
Parameters:
| charset |
return location for character set name, or null. |
Returns:
|
true if the returned charset is UTF-8 |