lib/locale/posix.rb in gettext-1.92.0 vs lib/locale/posix.rb in gettext-1.93.0

@@ -4,19 +4,33 @@
   Copyright (C) 2002-2007  Masao Mutoh
 
   You may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
   license terms as Ruby.
 
-  $Id: posix.rb,v 1.2 2007/11/08 16:44:22 mutoh Exp $
+  $Id: posix.rb,v 1.4 2008/09/15 16:32:39 mutoh Exp $
 =end
 
 require 'locale/base'
 
 module Locale 
   # Locale::SystemPosix module for Posix OS (Unix)
   # This is a low-level class. Application shouldn't use this directly.
   module SystemPosix
     extend SystemBase
+
+    module_function
+    # Gets the charset of the locale.
+    # * locale: Locale::Object
+    # * Returns the charset of the locale
+    def get_charset(locale)
+      charset = `LANG=#{locale.to_str};locale charmap`.strip
+      unless $? && $?.success?
+        charset = "UTF-8"
+      end
+      charset
+    end  
   end
+
   @@locale_system_module = SystemPosix
+
 end