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On 8/21/2014 3:42 PM, Paul Moore wrote:

I wonder how badly a Unix system would break if you specified UTF16 as  
the system encoding...?  
Paul

Does Unix even support UTF-16 as an encoding? I suppose, these days, it probably does, for reading contents of files created on Windows, etc. (Unicode was just gaining traction when I last used Unix in a significant manner; yes, my web host runs Linux, and I know enough to do what can be done there... but haven't experimented with encodings other than ASCII & UTF-8 on the web host, and don't intend to).

If it allows configuration of UTF-16 or UTF-32 as system encodings, I would consider that a bug, though, as too much of Unix predates Unicode, and would be likely to fail.