UTF-8 OS support
From UTF-8
Here’s an incomplete list of operating systems that support UTF-8 by default.
- Plan 9 (September 1992)
- BeOS DR9 (May 1997)
- Windows 2000 (February 2000)—primarily UTF-16
- Mac OS X 10.0 (March 2001)
- Red Hat Linux 8.0 (September 2002)
- Athena Linux 9.2 (July 2003)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (October 2003)
- Fedora Core 1 (November 2003)
- Mandrake Linux 10.0 (March 2004)—selectable at install time
- SuSE Linux 9.1 (April 2004)
- Ubuntu 5.04 “Hoary Hedgehog” (April 2005)
- Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 “Etch” (April 2007)