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Locale Recommendations for UNIX When Using UTF-8

Many UNIX systems use incompatible character encodings to represent their local alphabets as binary data. This means that, for example, a string of text from a Korean system cannot be viewed in a Chinese system. However, you can configure UNIX systems to use UTF-8 encoding for any language. UTF-8 text encoding supports multiple languages so that one language does not interfere with another.

To configure the system locale settings to use UTF-8, perform the following steps:

Run the following command:

locale -a

Determine whether you can find a locale for your language with the suffix

.utf8

localedef -f UTF-8 -i en_US en_US.utf8

If you have a locale that allows UTF-8, instruct the UNIX system to use that locale.

Export LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
export LANG="en_US.utf8"
export LANGUAGE="en_US.utf8"

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