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From: grant@antiflux.org (Grant Hollingworth)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:30:04 -0500
Subject: [sup-talk] the proper way of determining the encoding
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Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Sat Jan 12 21:22:58 -0500 2008:
> I think I've found a better way, although it introduces yet another
> dependency, to the 'gettext' gem. I'd be interested to see if this works
> for you, Giorgio, and also for anyone who's running Sup under Cygwin or
> OS X. This is an approach I feel a lot better about.

This works on OS X (10.5.1). Your other method of using locale(1) didn't.
('locale -c LC_CTYPE' returns 'LC_CTYPE' on my machine... not very useful.)