Re: default value of degree_sign on Japanese env.

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Wednesday, November 02, 2011 02:40:47 am Shigeharu TAKENO wrote:
> | 
> | Or the program could use iconv() to convert the symbol into the 
> | locale setting of the program environment.  
> 
> I think both are not need now. I will consider them when the 
> degree_sign is used at somewhere in fact.

I have revised the new code to use iconv() if it is available.
I tested under linux by setting the locale to ja_JP.EUC-JP,
which causes it to emit the character sequence \241 \353 (octal)
which is 0xA1EB (hexidecimal).  But I don't have any EUC-JP fonts
installed, so I cannot confirm if this is correct.

If you build the new code, you can test it by saying
   set encoding locale
   show decimal

If your locale is EUC-JP and you see a degree sign, then it is working.
If you get an error message then there is a problem with recognizing the
locale.

	Ethan