Following up on shell(locale) problem

Warren Samples warren at warrensweb.us
Wed Mar 2 11:46:55 EST 2011


On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 10:37 -0600, Warren Samples wrote: 
> On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 18:10 -0800, Peter Haworth wrote: 
> > That's definitely an option if I don't find a solution to getting the locale info from within LiveCode.  Unfortunately, I know nothing about python. I've been sent some pretty cool LC scripts to do this formatting in response to my post about it.  I'm almost at the point where I will just have the user enter these prefs into my app then use the scripts people have given me to do the fomatting.   
> > 
> > Pete Haworth
> > 
> 
> 
> Peter,
> 
> Try running 'locfale -k LC_CTYPE' 
> 
> Running that command in Terminal returns 'charmap="UTF-8"' but in
> Livecode it returns 'charmap="US-ASCII"' for me.
> 
> Good luck :)
> 
> Warren
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________



I should say: that is under OS X. Under Linux, 'charmap="UTF-8"' is
returned both in a terminal and in Livecode.

Warren






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