Status of UTF-8 support in shells

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This is maybe not the best forum to ask but anyone knows about the status of UTF-8 support in shells and operating systems ?

That is, are there non totally obscure platforms where it is not supported out-of-the-box ?

I’m considering making slight esthetic changes in cmdliner error reporting. Namely using correct opening and closing quotes rather than use the US-ASCII era grave accent (U+0060) as a left quote – something I likely copied from the getopt library error messages.

At least Markus Kuhn seems to be prompting me to do so.

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Not what you asked, but just confirming it works on cmd.exe (at least on recent versions of Windows):

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Cheers,
Nicolas

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That’s exactly the kind of confirmation I’m asking for. Thanks !

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All sorts of unicode stuff works in xterm (+ bash) on Ubuntu Linux. I cut-and-paste unicode filenames all the time.

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Is there any chance some supported languages set by default their locale codeset to something different than UTF-8 ? (E.g. for Chinese, Japanese or Thai)