Determination of the locale from system settings

If COBOL for Linux® cannot determine the value of an applicable locale category from the environment variables, it uses default settings.

When the language and country codes are determined from environment variables, but the code page is not, COBOL for Linux uses the default system code page for the language and country-code combination.

Multiple code pages might apply to the language and country-code combination. If you do not want the Linux system to select a default code page, you must specify the code page explicitly.

UTF-8: UTF-8 encoding is supported for any language and country-code combination.