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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 11:10:26 +0200
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Am 28.04.2025 um 10:08 schrieb Janis Papanagnou:

> My file system (and obviously also the file systems of others that
> are posting here) have no problems with any locale.

That's the problem: the filesystem should have a specific locale.
Otherwise you copy some files from a different computer where the
user has a different locale and you get Swahili-filenames.

> The historic architecture of Linux file systems is able to represent
> files having file names in arbitrary languages. That's why the Unix
> file systems don't show the issues that other (popular) OSes show.

Windows only has UTF-16-filenames and nov varying locale.