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== Operating Systems == | == Operating Systems == | ||
| − | Most modern OSs [[UTF-8 OS support|support UTF-8 by default]]. On UNIX/Linux, you can check whether you are in a UTF-8 locale by running <code>locale</code> it should report <code> | + | Most modern OSs, including all major distributions of Linux, [[UTF-8 OS support|support UTF-8 by default]]. Sometimes, a system that has been upgraded from an old distribution may remain on a legacy locale until it has been reconfigured. On UNIX/Linux, you can check whether you are in a UTF-8 locale by running <code>locale charmap</code>; it should report <code>UTF-8</code>. If you are not in a UTF-8 locale, here is how to enable UTF-8 by default in various OS flavors: |
* [[Debian]] | * [[Debian]] | ||
* [[Red Hat]] | * [[Red Hat]] | ||
| + | * [[Gentoo]] | ||
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| + | == Terminal Applications == | ||
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| + | * [[PuTTY]] | ||
| + | * [[SecureCRT]] | ||
| + | * [[xterm]] | ||
| + | * [[Terminal.app]] (Mac OS X Terminal) | ||
Revision as of 21:09, 15 November 2013
The purpose of this wiki is to help sysadmins and users properly configure their environment to support Unicode and the UTF-8 character set, with an emphasis on MIT computing. This wiki is based on MediaWiki; see the User’s Guide.
Operating Systems
Most modern OSs, including all major distributions of Linux, support UTF-8 by default. Sometimes, a system that has been upgraded from an old distribution may remain on a legacy locale until it has been reconfigured. On UNIX/Linux, you can check whether you are in a UTF-8 locale by running locale charmap; it should report UTF-8. If you are not in a UTF-8 locale, here is how to enable UTF-8 by default in various OS flavors:
Terminal Applications
- PuTTY
- SecureCRT
- xterm
- Terminal.app (Mac OS X Terminal)
