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I know I'm an old fart but this is yet another reason why I don't want my servers supporting UTF-8.

LC_ALL=C

It's important and NECESSARY to be inclusive, and as long as nginx can still provide the UTF-8 characters I don't care; but there is no way I can allow anything other then US ASCII to be on the terminal.

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How would you read git log output with non-ascii author names then?

That actually didn't work not too long ago. I don't remember if it was git or less, but "unicode" characters it would end up getting reified as, e.g., "<U+1234>", as I recall.

Thankfully it got fixed at some point.

Unfortunately, the C locale will not achieve your goal: UTF-8 will be merely a subset of what you support, rather than getting rid of it.

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