unless (Encode::find_encoding($ENCODING_LOCALE)) {
	my $foundit;
	if (lc($ENCODING_LOCALE) eq "gb18030") {
	    eval {
		require Encode::HanExtra;
	    };
	    if ($@) {
		die "Need Encode::HanExtra to be installed to support locale codeset ($ENCODING_LOCALE), stopped";
	    }
	    $foundit++ if Encode::find_encoding($ENCODING_LOCALE);
	}
	die "The locale codeset ($ENCODING_LOCALE) isn't one that perl can decode, stopped"
	    unless $foundit;

    }