3 * check_charset.c -- routines for character sets
5 * This code is Copyright (c) 2002, by the authors of nmh. See the
6 * COPYRIGHT file in the root directory of the nmh distribution for
7 * complete copyright information.
11 #ifdef HAVE_LANGINFO_H
12 # include <langinfo.h>
17 * Get the current character set
22 char *charset = getenv ("MM_CHARSET");
23 #if defined(HAVE_NL_LANGINFO) && defined(CODESET)
25 charset = norm_charmap(nl_langinfo (CODESET));
32 * Check if we can display a given character set natively.
33 * We are passed the length of the initial part of the
34 * string to check, since we want to allow the name of the
35 * character set to be a substring of a larger string.
39 check_charset (char *str, int len)
41 static char *mm_charset = NULL;
42 static char *alt_charset = NULL;
46 /* Cache the name of our default character set */
48 if (!(mm_charset = get_charset ()))
49 mm_charset = "US-ASCII";
50 mm_len = strlen (mm_charset);
52 /* US-ASCII is a subset of the ISO-8859-X and UTF-8 character sets */
53 if (!strncasecmp("ISO-8859-", mm_charset, 9) ||
54 !mh_strcasecmp("UTF-8", mm_charset)) {
55 alt_charset = "US-ASCII";
56 alt_len = strlen (alt_charset);
60 /* Check if character set is OK */
61 if ((len == mm_len) && !strncasecmp(str, mm_charset, mm_len))
63 if (alt_charset && (len == alt_len) && !strncasecmp(str, alt_charset, alt_len))
71 * Return the name of the character set we are
72 * using for 8bit text.
75 write_charset_8bit (void)
77 static char *mm_charset = NULL;
80 * Cache the name of the character set to
83 if (!mm_charset && !(mm_charset = get_charset ()))
84 mm_charset = "x-unknown";