Copy and Paste with iconv

Benjamin Riefenstahl Benjamin.Riefenstahl@epost.de
Thu Oct 9 20:26:00 GMT 2003


Hi,


Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> writes:
> Is there anyway that you can figure out the -winencoding parameter
> from Windows?

  char label[20];
  sprintf( label, "CP%d", (int) GetACP() );

Or something similar, you get the idea.  E.g. for SHIFT_JIS you should
get CP932, which is in the iconv list of supported encodings here.

On NT/W2K/XP, you may also want to translate to Unicode and set the
clipboard with that, too.


benny



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