/* Determine a canonical name for the current locale's character encoding.
- Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published
into one of the canonical names listed in config.charset.
The result must not be freed; it is statically allocated.
If the canonical name cannot be determined, the result is a non-canonical
- name or NULL. */
+ name. */
#ifdef STATIC
STATIC
# else
- /* On old systems which lack it, use setlocale and getenv. */
+ /* On old systems which lack it, use setlocale or getenv. */
const char *locale = NULL;
-# if HAVE_SETLOCALE
+ /* But most old systems don't have a complete set of locales. Some
+ (like SunOS 4 or DJGPP) have only the C locale. Therefore we don't
+ use setlocale here; it would return "C" when it doesn't support the
+ locale name the user has set. */
+# if HAVE_SETLOCALE && 0
locale = setlocale (LC_CTYPE, NULL);
# endif
if (locale == NULL || locale[0] == '\0')
#endif
- if (codeset != NULL && codeset[0] != '\0')
- {
- /* Resolve alias. */
- for (aliases = get_charset_aliases ();
- *aliases != '\0';
- aliases += strlen (aliases) + 1, aliases += strlen (aliases) + 1)
- if (!strcmp (codeset, aliases))
- {
- codeset = aliases + strlen (aliases) + 1;
- break;
- }
- }
+ if (codeset == NULL)
+ /* The canonical name cannot be determined. */
+ codeset = "";
+
+ /* Resolve alias. */
+ for (aliases = get_charset_aliases ();
+ *aliases != '\0';
+ aliases += strlen (aliases) + 1, aliases += strlen (aliases) + 1)
+ if (strcmp (codeset, aliases) == 0
+ || (aliases[0] == '*' && aliases[1] == '\0'))
+ {
+ codeset = aliases + strlen (aliases) + 1;
+ break;
+ }
return codeset;
}