You're right, in the case of FAT16/FAT32 it AFAIK has to use the current system locale, since unlike EXFAT or NTFS there isn't a place in the filesystem to stor

You're right, in the case of FAT16/FAT32 it AFAIK has to use the current system locale, since unlike EXFAT or NTFS there isn't a place in the filesystem to store that locale table.