Windows XP - Environment variable - Unicode

["Martin v. Löwis"]

sebastien.hugues wrote:
> So the question is how to get the default encoding of the system ?

On Windows, the system encoding is always called "mbcs". Actually,
there are two system encodings: the ANSI code page (CP_ACP), and
the OEM code page (CP_OEMCP). "mbcs" is CP_ACP. CP_ACP is used
everywhere except in terminal windows and when encoding FAT file
names on disk.

Regards,
Martin