GLib.get_charset

function get_charset(charset: String): Boolean {
    // Gjs wrapper for g_get_charset()
}
  

Obtains the character set for the [current locale][setlocale]; you might use this character set as an argument to GLib.convert, to convert from the current locale's encoding to some other encoding. (Frequently GLib.locale_to_utf8 and GLib.locale_from_utf8 are nice shortcuts, though.)

On Windows the character set returned by this function is the so-called system default ANSI code-page. That is the character set used by the "narrow" versions of C library and Win32 functions that handle file names. It might be different from the character set used by the C library's current locale.

The return value is true if the locale's encoding is UTF-8, in that case you can perhaps avoid calling GLib.convert.

The string returned in charset is not allocated, and should not be freed.