$ cat foo.fsx printf "äöü\n" $ LANG='en_US.UTF-8' fsharpi foo.fsx | hd 00000000 c3 a4 c3 b6 c3 bc 0a |.......| 00000007 $ LANG='en_DK.UTF-8' fsharpi foo.fsx | hd 00000000 c3 a4 c3 b6 c3 bc 0a |.......| 00000007 $ LANG='en_DK.ISO-8859-15' fsharpi foo.fsx | hd 00000000 c3 a4 c3 b6 c3 bc 0a |.......| 00000007 $ LANG='en_DK.GARBAGE' fsharpi foo.fsx | hd 00000000 3f 3f 3f 0a |???.| 00000004