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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Rationale for aligning data on even bytes in a Unix shell file?
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 09:29:46 +0200
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On 28.04.2025 02:53, Bonita Montero wrote:
> Am 27.04.2025 um 21:55 schrieb Janis Papanagnou:
> 
>> I think we have to distinguish the technical base size, an octet,
>> from the actual filenames. My Linux has no problem to represent,
>> say, filenames in Chinese or German umlaut characters that require
>> for representation 2 octets.
> 
> You're joking. Which applications currently can handle more than
> a 7 bit characters with Unix files ?

All Applications on my Unix system, for example

$ touch Ölüberschuß.txt
$ ls Ö*
Ölüberschuß.txt
$ ls Ö* | od -t x1 -c
0000000  c3  96  6c  c3  bc  62  65  72  73  63  68  75  c3  9f  2e  74
        303 226   l 303 274   b   e   r   s   c   h   u 303 237   .   t
0000020  78  74  0a
          x   t  \n
0000023
$ rm Ölüberschuß.txt


Janis