Re: getpwent, user-full-name and utf-8

[Richard Stallman]

    I propose that we bite the bullet, assume a fixed external system
    encoding of utf-8 for such strings, and recode accordingly.

Since this is a matter of interacting with the rest of the system, the
pertinent question is not how people OUGHT to encode /etc/passwd, but
rather how they DO encode it.

Is there a common practice of encoding parts of /etc/passwd in utf-8?