Which Unicode encoding does the Linux kernel use?
character-encoding, linux, unicode
Solution
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.
Problem
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?