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+ | 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 <pre>locale</pre>; it should report <pre>LANG=en_US.UTF-8</pre>. 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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Revision as of 18:39, 11 June 2007
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 support UTF-8 by default. On UNIX/Linux, you can check whether you are in a UTF-8 locale by runninglocale; it should report
LANG=en_US.UTF-8. If you are not in a UTF-8 locale, here is how to enable UTF-8 by default in various OS flavors: