Linux is far less specific than Windows 10. In all recent versions of Debian GNU/Linux, UTF-8 is the most common character encoding, but it is still supported to use ISO-8859-x or I believe even something like EUC-JP. Other distributions may enforce UTF-8 or in rare cases ISO 8859-1 or even something else.
On Thu, Sep 15, 2016, 4:18 AM Costello, Roger L. <coste...@mitre.org> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > In a book that I am reading [1] the author mentions “the default character > encoding for the operating system.” What is the default character encoding > of: > > - Windows 10 > > - Mac OS > > - Linux > > > /Roger > > [1] *Practical Common Lisp* by Peter Seibel, p. 165 (footnote 2). >