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What do you mean? encoding in what context? What are you encoding: text, movies, images, filesystem?<br />
Encoding is often performed by other applications. &nbsp;You need to locate an application that can encode and see whether there is an application that runs on your OS. &nbsp;Once you locate the application, you can either check whether it is available on your system or get it installed on your system. 
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What do you mean? encoding in what context? What are you encoding: text, movies, images, filesystem?
Encoding is often performed by other applications.  You need to locate an application that can encode and see whether there is an application that runs on your OS.  Once you locate the application, you can either check whether it is available on your system or get it installed on your system.

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Hi,<br />
perhaps you mean the current and available languages and character sets?<br />
These can be displayed using 'locale'<br />
'locale -a' displays all available (public) locales, and<br />
'locale' displays the current setiings. <br />
Check the 'locale' manpage for more, and please correct us if we misunderstood your question.<br />
&nbsp;<br />
wmp<br />
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Hi,
perhaps you mean the current and available languages and character sets?
These can be displayed using 'locale'
'locale -a' displays all available (public) locales, and
'locale' displays the current setiings.
Check the 'locale' manpage for more, and please correct us if we misunderstood your question.
 
wmp
 


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Hi,<br />
I meant the character encodings like UTF-8, EUC_JIS, BIG5, etc. <br />
I guess I can run locale -a and parse for the suffix <br />
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Is there any way i can determine what encoding the filename is in? <br />
<br />
Thanks<br />
Jamie
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Hi,
I meant the character encodings like UTF-8, EUC_JIS, BIG5, etc.
I guess I can run locale -a and parse for the suffix

Is there any way i can determine what encoding the filename is in?

Thanks
Jamie

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Hi,<br />
How do I get the list of supported encodings from the OS?<br />
Is there a system function for this?<br />
<br />
Thanks<br />
Jamie
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Hi,
How do I get the list of supported encodings from the OS?
Is there a system function for this?

Thanks
Jamie

How do I get the list of supported encodings from the OS?

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 at Bell Labs. Today, it is a modern OS with many commercial flavors and licensees, including FreeBSD, Hewlett-Packard’s UX, IBM AIX and Apple Mac OS-X. Apart from its command-line interface, most UNIX variations support the standardized X Window System for GUIs, with the exception of the Mac OS, which uses a proprietary system.