Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Rationale for aligning data on even bytes in a Unix shell file? Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 01:08:36 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 6 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 08 May 2025 03:08:36 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ad3f9e0e237997a0995a8fee019af33d"; logging-data="1425203"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19IY1bH42fzCuohpHbqVgD+" User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kNRAtVgxQApbDUFwnki2F9z9oyg= Bytes: 2025 On Wed, 7 May 2025 13:26:49 -0500, BGB wrote: > Ligatures pose an issue though ... Ligatures are a rendering issue. Leave them out of the text encoding as far as possible.