Commits on Dec 5, 2015

1. Punt to the operating system for character encodings …

   Without this, "may contain any Unicode characters" seemed too
   ambiguous.
   
   I wish there were cleaner references for the {language}.{encoding}
   locales like en_US.UTF-8 and UTF-8.  But [1,2] seems too glib, and I
   can't find a more targetted UTF-8 link than just dropping folks into a
   Unicode chapter (which is what [1] does):
   
     The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0, §3.9 D92, §3.10 D95 (2011)
   
   With the current v8.0 (2015-06-17), it's still §3.9 D92 and §3.10 D95.
   
   The TR35 link is for:
   
     In addition, POSIX locales may also specify the character encoding,
     which requires the data to be transformed into that target encoding.
   
   and the POSIX §6.2 link is for:
   
     In other locales, the presence, meaning, and representation of any
     additional characters are locale-specific.
   
   [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
   [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locale#POSIX_platforms
   
   Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
   Reviewed-by: Jesse Butler <jeeves.butler@gmail.com>

   

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