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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Rationale for aligning data on even bytes in a Unix shell file?
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 07:30:21 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 07:40:57 +0200, Bonita Montero wrote:

> Am 29.04.2025 um 04:37 schrieb Lawrence D'Oliveiro:
>>
>> On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 09:28:14 +0200, Bonita Montero wrote:
>> 
>>> Am 28.04.2025 um 06:47 schrieb Lawrence D'Oliveiro:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:28:05 +0200, Bonita Montero wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Am 28.04.2025 um 03:22 schrieb Lawrence D'Oliveiro:
>>>
>>>>> That's not true. The codepoints for the surrogates were unused
>>>>> before.
>>>
>>>> The problem is the fact that you have to deal with surrogates.
>>>
>>> That's trivial.
>> 
>> I had to deal with it in Java code. It’s not trivial.
>> 
>> Far easier to have systems, like Python or Linux, which can deal with
>> full Unicode in a more native fashion.
> 
> I've got my u16_feeder iterator for that I'n using for years.
> It has the same semantics like a pointer in C++ and it's as easy to use.

So you had to roll your own code to deal with it. That’s OK. On POSIX 
systems, we have iconv(3) when we need it.

<https://manpages.debian.org/iconv(3)>