How do I determine my MATLAB default character encoding scheme?

Using unicode2native with a single argument, it defaults to "the MATLAB default character encoding scheme". How do I find out what my default is?

Answer 1

[Grzegorz Knor]

Another solution:

feature('DefaultCharacterSet')

Answer 2

[Grzegorz Knor]

Use java class:

import java.nio.charset.Charset
encoding = Charset.defaultCharset()

[Matthew Simoneau]

On my box, this returns "windows-1252", which sounds right. Are we sure that MATLAB and Java are always in sync on this?

[Grzegorz Knor]

"MATLAB, unless you specify a particular encoding will use the computer's (user's) default encoding."

<http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2006/09/20/working-with-low-level-file-io-and-encodings/>

Answer 3

[Grzegorz Knor]

get_param(0, 'CharacterEncoding')

[Matthew Simoneau]

Thanks, but get_param is a Simulink function.

Answer 4

[Jan]

Matlab 2009a, WindowsXP:

get(0, 'Language')
% >>  'en_us.windows-1252'

[Matthew Simoneau]

On my Windows 7 machine, all this returns is 'en_us'.