On May 16, 2014, at 8:56 AM, Hendrik Boom hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 08:12:50AM -0400, Marc Feeley wrote:
This comment makes me wonder if ISO-8859-1 is the right default for ttys. Perhaps it would be less surprising if UTF-8 was the default.
Does anyone know of a way to autodetect the tty’s character encoding? It would be nice if xterm could be forced to send a BOM so that Gambit would autodetect the character encoding (if ttys were started with the ___CHAR_ENCODING_UTF_FALLBACK_ISO_8859_1 character encoding mode). But I see no way of doing this after a quick look at xterm’s source code.
There's always the environment variable LANG. On my machine env tell me LANG=en_CA.utf8 and the .utf8 on the en_CA clues me in.
Is there a simple way to parse the LANG environment variable to determine the preferred character encoding?
Marc