patch 9.1.0024: z/OS (MVS) support can be improved
Problem: z/OS (MVS) support can be improved
Solution: set UTF-8 as the default encoding for z/OS
closes: #13821
Signed-off-by: Igor Todorovski <itodorov@ca.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
diff --git a/src/option.c b/src/option.c
index 2372c1a..14447f5 100644
--- a/src/option.c
+++ b/src/option.c
@@ -450,9 +450,10 @@
char_u *p;
int opt_idx;
-# ifdef MSWIN
+# if defined(MSWIN) || defined(__MVS__)
// MS-Windows has builtin support for conversion to and from Unicode, using
// "utf-8" for 'encoding' should work best for most users.
+ // z/OS built should default to UTF-8 mode as setlocale does not respect utf-8 environment variable locales
p = vim_strsave((char_u *)ENC_DFLT);
# else
// enc_locale() will try to find the encoding of the current locale.