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What Unicode encoding does the Linux kernel use?

I found out that Windows uses UTF-16LE for x86 / x64 systems. How about Linux? Which encoding Unicode uses: UTF-16LE or UTF-32?

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http://www.xsquawkbox.net/xpsdk/mediawiki/Unicode says

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On Linux, UTF8 is the native encoding for all strings, and is the format adopted by system routines such as fopen()

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so Linux is similar to Plan 9 in this respect and boost :: filesystem and Unicode under Linux and Windows notes



It seems to me that boost::filesystem

under Linux does not provide a wide character string in path::native()

spite of boost::filesystem::path

being initialized with a wide string.

which excludes UTF-16 and UTF-32 as all variants require broad character support - NUL bytes are allowed inside strings.

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Unix generally prefers UTF-8. This document assumes that the Linux kernel does too.



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