Looks like Fedora has C.UTF-8 now, and even backported this change to their stable releases:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902094 They're not upstream, but a good part of distros that are not downstream from Debian are downstream from Fedora. This availability makes defaulting to C.UTF-8 that more viable. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Have you heard of the Amber Road? For thousands of years, the ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ Romans and co valued amber, hauled through the Europe over the ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ mountains and along the Vistula, from Gdańsk. To where it came ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ together with silk (judging by today's amber stalls).