-.SH LOCALES AND CHARACTER ENCODINGS
-WIM files themselves store file and stream names using Windows native "wide
-character strings", which are UTF-16. On Windows, wimlib works using these same
-strings, so conversions are usually not necessary and there should be no
-problems with character encodings.
-.PP
-On UNIX-like systems, wimlib works primarily in the locale-dependent multibyte
-encoding, which you are strongly recommended to set to UTF-8 to avoid any
-problems. You can alternatively set the environmental variable
-\fBWIMLIB_IMAGEX_USE_UTF8\fR to force \fBwimlib-imagex\fR to use UTF-8
-internally, even if the current locale is not UTF-8 compatible.