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diff --git a/crawl-ref/INSTALL b/crawl-ref/INSTALL index 871eadf95d..32a4304674 100644 --- a/crawl-ref/INSTALL +++ b/crawl-ref/INSTALL @@ -368,7 +368,18 @@ not UTF-8, you can force it to UTF-8 on most systems by doing "export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8" or the equivalent, depending on your language locale and what shell you're using. +Crawl tries to use en_US.UTF-8 as its default Unicode locale. If you +do not have this locale installed, but do have some other UTF-8 locale, +you can tell Crawl to use your preferred UTF-8 locale by setting +UNICODE_LOCALE = ${foo}.UTF-8 in makefile.unix, where ${foo} is your +locale name. + +You may not want to embed the locale in Crawl itself, but have Crawl +use the locale as set in the environment LC_* variables. In such +cases, you can use UNICODE_LOCALE = . in makefile.unix. Crawl will +then use the locale as set in your environment. + If you're playing Crawl on a remote machine, the remote Crawl should be built with Unicode support, it needs to have a UTF-8 locale installed, *and* your local terminal (where you're running telnet/ssh) needs to be -able to decode UTF-8. +able to decode UTF-8.
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