Call nl_langinfo(CODESET) to get the name of the locale encoding on Unix

[ghc-base.git] / cbits / PrelIOUtils.c

diff --git a/cbits/PrelIOUtils.c b/cbits/PrelIOUtils.c
index de7fed4..6444bd0 100644 (file)
--- a/cbits/PrelIOUtils.c
+++ b/cbits/PrelIOUtils.c
@@ -24,4 +24,14 @@ void debugBelch2(const char*s, char *t)
 {
     debugBelch(s,t);
 }
+
+// Use a C wrapper for this because we avoid hsc2hs in base
+#if HAVE_LANGINFO_H
+#include <langinfo.h>
+char *localeEncoding (void)
+{
+    return nl_langinfo(CODESET);
+}
+#endif
+
 #endif /* __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ */