@@ -18,10 +18,13 @@
 
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
 
+#ifdef HAVE_LANGINFO_H
+# include <langinfo.h>
+#endif
 #include <locale.h>
 #include <signal.h>
 
 #import "OFApplication.h"
 #import "OFString.h"
@@ -30,10 +33,13 @@
 #import "OFSystemInfo.h"
 #import "OFRunLoop.h"
 #import "OFRunLoop+Private.h"
 #import "OFThread.h"
 #import "OFThread+Private.h"
+
+#import "OFOutOfMemoryException.h"
+#import "OFOutOfRangeException.h"
 
 #if defined(OF_MAC_OS_X)
 # include <crt_externs.h>
 #elif defined(OF_WINDOWS)
 # include <windows.h>
@@ -64,10 +70,12 @@
 #endif
 - (void)OF_run;
 @end
 
 static OFApplication *app = nil;
+extern of_string_encoding_t of_system_info_native_8bit_encoding;
+extern OFString *of_system_info_decimal_point;
 
 static void
 atexitHandler(void)
 {
 	id <OFApplicationDelegate> delegate = [app delegate];
@@ -99,13 +107,53 @@
 	id <OFApplicationDelegate> delegate;
 #ifdef OF_WINDOWS
 	wchar_t **wargv, **wenvp;
 	int wargc, si = 0;
 #endif
+#ifdef HAVE_LANGINFO_H
+	char *codeset, *lowerCodeset;
+	size_t codesetLen;
+#endif
 
 	setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
 
+#ifdef HAVE_LANGINFO_H
+	codeset = nl_langinfo(CODESET);
+	codesetLen = strlen(codeset);
+
+	if (SIZE_MAX - codesetLen < 1)
+		@throw [OFOutOfRangeException exception];
+
+	if ((lowerCodeset = malloc(codesetLen + 1)) == NULL)
+		@throw [OFOutOfMemoryException
+		    exceptionWithRequestedSize: codesetLen + 1];
+
+	for (size_t i = 0; i < codesetLen; i++)
+		lowerCodeset[i] = of_ascii_tolower(codeset[i]);
+
+	if (strcmp(lowerCodeset, "utf8") == 0 ||
+	    strcmp(lowerCodeset, "utf-8") == 0)
+		of_system_info_native_8bit_encoding = OF_STRING_ENCODING_UTF_8;
+	else if (strcmp(lowerCodeset, "ascii") == 0 ||
+	    strcmp(lowerCodeset, "us-ascii") == 0)
+		of_system_info_native_8bit_encoding = OF_STRING_ENCODING_ASCII;
+	else if (strcmp(lowerCodeset, "iso8859-1") == 0 ||
+	    strcmp(lowerCodeset, "iso-8859-1") == 0)
+		of_system_info_native_8bit_encoding =
+		    OF_STRING_ENCODING_ISO_8859_1;
+	else if (strcmp(lowerCodeset, "iso8859-15") == 0 ||
+	    strcmp(lowerCodeset, "iso-8859-15") == 0)
+		of_system_info_native_8bit_encoding =
+		    OF_STRING_ENCODING_ISO_8859_15;
+
+	free(lowerCodeset);
+#endif
+
+	of_system_info_decimal_point = [[OFString alloc]
+	    initWithCString: localeconv()->decimal_point
+		   encoding: of_system_info_native_8bit_encoding];
+
 	if ([cls isSubclassOfClass: [OFApplication class]]) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "FATAL ERROR:\n  Class %s is a subclass of "
 		    "class OFApplication, but class\n  %s was specified as "
 		    "application delegate!\n  Most likely, you wanted to "
 		    "subclass OFObject instead or specified\n  the wrong class "