[GRASS-dev] Re: [bug #5195] (grass) ps.map sets encoding to iso-8859-1

[Moritz Lennert]

Hamish wrote:
> Moritz Lennert wrote:
>> So, maybe we should at least add a hint to the ps.map man page that 
>> utf-8-based users who want non-ascii characters should translate their 
>> utf-8 instruction files to unibyte before using them.
> 
> yes that would be good, with an example.
> 
>> I imagine there is no way of automatically identifying the encoding of a 
>> file ?
> 
> file $filename

Could this be integrated into ps.map (i.e. is there a C equivalent) ? 
Would this be a good idea ?

Moritz