At Tue, 5 Oct 1999 17:33:22 +0200, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need some input from Japanese users: how can I check in a VERY SIMPLE > way if the console works with japanese characters[1]?
Maybe, there are no simple way to check whether tty is able to handle Japanese character or not. I think it's the easiest way to check $LANG environment variable. If user set LANG=ja (or ja_JP.*), we can assume he or she knows how to view Japanese character on tty. (snip) > [1] I don't know which charset, it's the one used by whois.nic.ad.jp AFAIK, whois.nic.ad.jp uses ISO-2022-JP encoding, described in RFC1468. Regards, Fumitoshi UKAI
