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== Operating Systems ==
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* [[UTF-8 for users|I’m just a user. Why should I care?]]
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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 reconfiguredOn 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:
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* [[Debian]]
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* [[Red Hat]]
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* [[Gentoo]]
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== Terminal Applications ==
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* [[PuTTY]]
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* [[SecureCRT]]
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* [[xterm]]
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* [[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

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