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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Rationale for aligning data on even bytes in a Unix shell file?
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 01:22:44 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 20:32:58 +0200, Bonita Montero wrote:

> Unix has a big problem that it doesn't support 16 bit character sets.
> Win32 supported UCS-2 from the beginning and UTF-16 afaik since Windows
> 2000.

Unfortunately, Windows has had to deal with the UCS-2→UTF-16 encoding 
kludge ever since then. Linux managed to avoid all that.