Which code set is /etc/passwd stored in? Can it be UTF-8? What limits are placed on user names?

Which code set is /etc/passwd stored in? Can it be UTF-8? What limits are placed on user names?

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iconv unicode unknown input format

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Werkzeug raises BrokenFilesystemWarning

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LESSCHARSET=utf-8 less doesn't seem to work

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How to convert a file from ASCII to UTF-8?

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How to convert xml file which is in non UTF-8 format to xml that is UTF-8 compliant

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Why LC_CTYPE needs to be set manually for Python in some cases

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Unescaping HTML entities (&#nnnn;) into plain UTF-8 [closed]

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Counting characters in a UTF-8 file

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gnu-binutils-strings utf-8 instead of utf-16 or ascii

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Username in Chinese/Japanese in Linux-Unix

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need to convert UTF8 and UTF16 .csv files to ASCII

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Converting twitter archive unicode escape

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Problems with UTF-8/ISO-8859-1 encoding on Windows --> Unix

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