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On 5/30/21 2:44 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> Yeah, I'm not sure how such a check would be done. On most Linux systems
> I've seen, $LANG will mention "en_US.UTF-8" or similar. But I've no idea
> how portable that convention is, not to mention that people may have
> more complex setups anyway (e.g., not setting $LANG but setting some of
> LC_*).


When 'locale charmap' prints 'UTF-8' the terminal can be assumed to be 
able to accept UTF-8 characters.

'locale charmap', I think, determines this only based on environment 
variables.



Yuri