Re: Querying locale's encoding name
Kenneth Porter <shiva.blacklist@sewingwitch.com> wrote:
I'm trying to read a binary file containing strings in the local
character set. On my system that might be CP1252 but it might be
something else in Europe. I need to write the strings to an XML file.
(I'm using TinyXML for portable XML writing.)
What do I put in the encoding attribute of the XML file's header? Ie.
how do I query the current locale's encoding? Under Linux I can use
nl_langinfo (CODESET). What's the Windows equivalent?
Additionally, I'm finding that glibc defines the 1252 encoding as
"CP1252", but in the MSDN documentation it looks like setlocale wants
just "1252". XML wants "windows-1252". Is there any standardization
for this?
I believe IMultiLanguage::GetCodePageInfo would give you the right
string.
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With best wishes,
Igor Tandetnik
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