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UTF-8 is the only sensible external encoding for Unicode text. Your answer does not consider how to choose between different encodings, and thus does not answer the question at all.

Johan Myréen
– Johan Myréen

2018-06-06 16:58:36 +00:00
Commented Jun 6, 2018 at 16:58
You are mistaken. Unicode causes problems that people did not expect. Many people for this reason use ISO-8859-1. The question does not ask how to set up a different encode, just how to deal with different encodings. So my answer is a good starter for further reading, by e.g. using the man program on the mentioned interfaces.

schily
– schily

2018-06-06 17:03:15 +00:00
Commented Jun 6, 2018 at 17:03

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