On Monday, 20 January 2014 at 10:22:03 UTC, Regan Heath wrote:
I was thinking in a very Windows centric way when I wrote my comment but it doesn't surprise me that other platforms can be configured to other locales. What do they default to?
UTF-8 for most "user-friendly" distros I know. Region/locale is usually entered by user during installation but encoding is always UTF-8. That said, changing it system-wide is just matter of tweaking config and regenerating locale so that can't be relied upon in standard library.
The last Linux install I did was for my Raspberry Pi and UTF-8 was recommended, and I selected it, and yet still I had to break out some weird console magic to fully realise that choice (I think there was a disjoint component which had not been configured correctly.. some part of the installation dropped the ball).
Most likely just installer issue for specific distro you have used.
