diff -Naur enscript-1.6.3.orig/lib/enscript.cfg.in enscript-1.6.3/lib/enscript.cfg.in
--- enscript-1.6.3.orig/lib/enscript.cfg.in	2002-08-16 16:35:10 +0400
+++ enscript-1.6.3/lib/enscript.cfg.in	2002-08-16 16:42:00 +0400
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 Clean7Bit: 1
 
 # Default input encoding.
-DefaultEncoding: latin1
+#DefaultEncoding: latin1
 
 # Default fancy header.
 DefaultFancyHeader: enscript
diff -Naur enscript-1.6.3.orig/src/main.c enscript-1.6.3/src/main.c
--- enscript-1.6.3.orig/src/main.c	2002-08-16 16:35:10 +0400
+++ enscript-1.6.3/src/main.c	2002-08-16 16:41:21 +0400
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
 #include "gsint.h"
 #include "getopt.h"
 
+#include <langinfo.h>
+
 /*
  * Prototypes for static functions.
  */
@@ -923,6 +925,37 @@
 };
 
 
+char *
+locale_to_enscript(char *str){
+    int		state=-1;
+    char	*tmp = xstrdup(str);
+    char	*p=tmp,*s=str;
+    
+    if (!s) return s;
+    
+    if (!strncmp(s,"ISO",3)) s+=3;
+    
+    for(;*s;s++){
+	if (*s!='-'){
+	    *p=tolower(*s);
+	    p++;
+	}
+    }
+    *p=0;
+
+    return tmp;
+}
+
+char *
+system_encoding(){
+    char *enc;
+        char *local_charset=nl_langinfo(CODESET);
+	if (!local_charset)
+	    return xstrdup("88591");
+	else
+	    return locale_to_enscript(local_charset);
+}
+
 /*
  * Global functions.
  */
@@ -1003,7 +1036,7 @@
 
   /* Defaults for some options. */
   media_name 		= xstrdup ("A4");
-  encoding_name		= xstrdup ("88591");
+  encoding_name		= system_encoding();//xstrdup ("88591");
   npf_name		= xstrdup ("octal");
   page_label_format	= xstrdup ("short");
   ul_style_str		= xstrdup ("outline");
@@ -1139,6 +1172,9 @@
   /* Personal config. */
   (void) read_config (passwd->pw_dir, ".enscriptrc");
 
+#if 0
+  fprintf(stderr,"encoding_name=%s\n",encoding_name);
+#endif
   /*
    * Options.
    */