<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 21:07, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ivan.miljenovic@gmail.com">ivan.miljenovic@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On 31 March 2011 14:51, John Millikin <<a href="mailto:jmillikin@gmail.com">jmillikin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Linux, OSX, and (probably?) FreeBSD use UTF8.<br>
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For Linux, doesn't it depend upon the locale rather than forcing UTF-8?<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div> </div></div>In theory, yes. There are environment to specify the locale encoding, and some applications attempt to obey them.<br>
<br>In practice, no. Both Qt and GTK+ use UTF8 internally, and react poorly when run on a non-UTF8 system. Every major distribution sets the locale encoding to UTF8. Setting a non-UTF8 encoding requires digging through various undocumented configuration files, and even then many applications will simply ignore it and use UTF8 anyway.<br>