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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 < | + | 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>LANG=en_US.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]] |
Revision as of 18:40, 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 running locale
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: