UTF-8 OS support
From UTF-8
Here’s an incomplete list of operating systems that support UTF-8 by default.
OS | Release date | Notes |
---|---|---|
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 | |
Cygwin 1.7 | December 2009 |