On 10/22/07, venture Lee <liwenqiu / gmail.com> wrote: > if use wxruby can solve my problem, example: > > require 'wx' > puts Wx::Locale.get_system_encoding_name > > this code will output 'cp936' on my windows and output 'UTF8' on my linux. > but it need wxruby, i want to know how to implement same function without > wxruby, thanks. Look at the implementation of wxruby, then. That'll have the C functions you need to call. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue / gmail.com * http://www.halostatue.ca/ * austin / halostatue.ca * http://www.halostatue.ca/feed/ * austin / zieglers.ca