In the subversion C/C++ API one of the function parameters defaults to a "locale encoding" which apparently is the native encoding used by the platform where the subversion client is running. I've been trying to find out how to use Perl to tell me the "locale" encoding and I'm having no luck. I'm sure I'm just not looking in the right place, but I wonder if one of the esteemed monks would be willing to tell me where this little tidbit is hiding.

So far I have tried:

• http://perldoc.perl.org/Encode.html - this tells me how to turn a particular IANA encoding into an encoding object, but not how to get the IANA name for the platform encoding (did I miss something?)
• http://perldoc.perl.org/Perlunicode.html
• http://perldoc.perl.org/Locale.html
• google and SuperSearch for tutorials on the topic
• http://perldoc.perl.org/Perlvar.html - you never know - all sorts of wonderful things hide there, but not this. (Or did I miss it?)

Many thanks in advance, beth

Note: the subversion perl API does have such a function, called svn_locale_charset(), located in core.i. I'm interested in a pure Perl equivalent.

Note2:The ideal would be platform independent (works on all Perl supported systems), but a stop-gap would be a collection of OS-specific functions that I could wrap together with some OS detection code.

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