On 10.03.23 03:26, Jeff Davis wrote:
> That's because ICU always uses UTF-8 by default. ICU works just fine
> with many other encodings; is there a reason it doesn't take it from
> the environment just like for provider=libc?
I think originally the locale forced the encoding. With ICU, we have a
choice. We could either stick to the encoding suggested by the OS, or
pick our own.
Arguably, if we are going to nudge toward ICU, maybe we should nudge
toward UTF-8 as well.
