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Subject: Re: Rationale for aligning data on even bytes in a Unix shell file?
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 09:31:37 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 09:44:27 +0200
Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> wibbled:
>Am 28.04.2025 um 09:42 schrieb Janis Papanagnou:
>
>> Why are you repeatedly saying that; it's not true, and examples have
>> been provided. If applications are locale-aware - which is standard
>> for a long time - you can consistently use what you like.
>
>There's no standard locale for a filesystem. Linux sucks with that.

*nix doesn't care about locales for most things including filenames, its
all just a sequence of bytes. Locales only matter for display such as
terminal char sets and dates.