From: Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery@...>
Date: 2003-09-24T16:49:43+09:00
Subject: system encoding? (was:Re: [newbie] specifying file encoding)

Emmanuel Touzery wrote:

>a string is considered by ruby as encoded as <insert your locale here>. If you 
>want to treat strings from other encodings, you can convert encoding using 
>"iconv" (bundled with ruby 1.8); in your case, you can use iconv to convert 
>the string to your local encoding (iso-8859-1) and then capitalize will work 
>fine.
>  
>
which made me wonder: how do I find out what is the current local 
encoding for the computer in a portable (unix/windows) way?

emmanuel