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− | The | + | 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 [http://www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki]; see the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents User’s Guide]. |
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+ | * [[Unicode|What is Unicode?]] | ||
+ | * [[UTF-8|What is UTF-8?]] | ||
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+ | == Operating Systems == | ||
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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 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: | ||
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+ | * [[Debian]] | ||
+ | * [[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 09:17, 9 August 2012
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)