Encoding of output artifacts from 'openssl req' command?
<p>My question is simply: What is the encoding of the .pem and .csr file created by openssl using this command:</p>

<pre><code>openssl req -nodes -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout key.pem -out some.csr \
    -subj "/C=XY/ST=UVW/L=SOMETOWN/O=STH/OU=STHELSE/CN=my.cert.test"
</code></pre>

<p>I do past some information from which i do not know if they are of importance for the answer of this question:</p>

<p>I am working on a xterm under x11. I have a up to date linux distribution (opensuse leap 42.2) and use openssl in my shell to create a csr file. I have a setting in my env <code>XTERM_LOCALE=de_DE.UTF-8</code>.</p>