No, it's wrong and stupid, in a Unix context (other operating systems may differ).
In Unix the ENVIRONMENT defines the locale, not the output stream. Files don't have encodings. They're merely byte streams. The application gets to decide how it wants to interpret it. One of the beauties and hates of Unix; files are boring with no distinction between binary or text, no locale information, no structured records... just bytes.
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Date: 2007-12-15 10:31 pm (UTC)In Unix the ENVIRONMENT defines the locale, not the output stream. Files don't have encodings. They're merely byte streams. The application gets to decide how it wants to interpret it. One of the beauties and hates of Unix; files are boring with no distinction between binary or text, no locale information, no structured records... just bytes.