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Asked: 2026-06-01T11:43:46+00:00

I have learned that Windows uses UTF-16LE on x86/x64 systems. What about Linux? Which

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I have learned that Windows uses UTF-16LE on x86/x64 systems. What about Linux? Which Unicode encoding does it use: UTF-16LE or UTF-32?

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

    Linux

    On Linux, UTF8 is the ‘native’ encoding for all strings, and is the format accepted by system routines like fopen().

    so Linux is like Plan 9 in that respect, and boost::filesystem and Unicode under Linux and Windows notes

    It looks to me like boost::filesystem under Linux does not provide a wide character string in path::native(), despite boost::filesystem::path having been initialized with a wide string.

    which would rule out UTF-16 and UTF-32 since all variants of those require wide character support — NUL bytes allowed inside strings.

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