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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Rationale for aligning data on even bytes in a Unix shell file?
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 07:28:42 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 18:56:56 +0200, Bonita Montero wrote:

>> The data in the tar archive is locale-independent.   Always.
> 
> The filenames not if they contain characters >= 128.

Doesn’t matter. They will still pack/unpack correctly.