Getting the system default charset

Christian Biesinger <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Jun 2005 21:59:08 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mozilla.internationalization
Organization	Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi,

I'd like to read an OS file in Mozilla code. Is there any way to get the 
system default charset (from C++ code)? I think I want essentially 
whatever nl_langinfo(CODESET) returns.

nsIPlatformCharset looks promising but does not seem to contain anything 
for file _contents_ (only filenames).

-biesi