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From: Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Rationale for aligning data on even bytes in a Unix shell file?
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 02:55:22 +0200
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Am 27.04.2025 um 23:40 schrieb Kaz Kylheku:

 > 16 bit encodings are junk; not supporting them doesn't cause an
 > issue whatsoever.

I'm living in Germany and here filenames often have "umlaute".

 >> Win32 supported UCS-2 from the beginning and UTF-16 afaik since Windows
 >> 2000. With Unix there's even not a standard charset for the filesystem;
 >> each filename character is just an octet.
 > What is the standard charset of a Windows file name?

 > Be sure your answer covers FAT32 and such.
FAT not, but NTFS is Unicode.