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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: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 01:13:58 +0200
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On 28.04.2025 20:38, Bonita Montero wrote:
> Am 28.04.2025 um 20:05 schrieb Janis Papanagnou:
> 
>> (I thought Windows would use "UCS2". Anyway; would 16 bit suffice to
>> support full Unicode; I thought it wouldn't, or only old restricted
>> versions of Unicode.)
> 
> Windows is UTF-16 since Windows 2000, UCS2 before.

Oh, so it's a multi-word encoding (like UTF-8 is a multi-byte encoding)
and a character not necessarily encoded with only one 16 bit word... -
....but then I wonder even more where you see an advantage.

Janis