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stringprep_locale_charset

NAME
SYNOPSIS
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DESCRIPTION
Find out current locale charset. The function respect the CHARSETenvironment variable, but typically uses nl_langinfo(CODESET) when itis supported. It fall back on "ASCII" if CHARSET isn’t set andnl_langinfo isn’t supported or return anything.Note that this function return the application’s locale’s preferredcharset (or thread’s locale’s preferred charset, if your system supportthread-specific locales). It does not return what the system may beusing. Thus, if you receive data from external sources you cannot ingeneral use this function to guess what charset it is encoded in. Usestringprep_convert from the external representation into the charsetreturned by this function, to have data in the locale encoding.Return value: Return the character set used by the current locale. Itwill never return NULL, but use "ASCII" as a fallback.REPORTING BUGS
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NAME

stringprep_locale_charset - API function

SYNOPSIS

#include <stringprep.h>

const char * stringprep_locale_charset( void );

ARGUMENTS

void

DESCRIPTION

Enumerated return codes of the TLD checking functions. The value 0 is guaranteed to always correspond to success.

Find out current locale charset. The function respect the CHARSETenvironment variable, but typically uses nl_langinfo(CODESET) when itis supported. It fall back on "ASCII" if CHARSET isn’t set andnl_langinfo isn’t supported or return anything.Note that this function return the application’s locale’s preferredcharset (or thread’s locale’s preferred charset, if your system supportthread-specific locales). It does not return what the system may beusing. Thus, if you receive data from external sources you cannot ingeneral use this function to guess what charset it is encoded in. Usestringprep_convert from the external representation into the charsetreturned by this function, to have data in the locale encoding.Return value: Return the character set used by the current locale. Itwill never return NULL, but use "ASCII" as a fallback.REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <help-libidn@gnu.org>.

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