Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Janis Papanagnou Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Rationale for aligning data on even bytes in a Unix shell file? Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 09:29:46 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 09:29:48 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d88a8a20faa75b78eb39146c41e77217"; logging-data="2933041"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+YAR/mOQChPYSifwL35Rba" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:1mjRLxqXW5dHgUK0bq7rmO0Zpiw= X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2117 On 28.04.2025 02:53, Bonita Montero wrote: > Am 27.04.2025 um 21:55 schrieb Janis Papanagnou: > >> I think we have to distinguish the technical base size, an octet, >> from the actual filenames. My Linux has no problem to represent, >> say, filenames in Chinese or German umlaut characters that require >> for representation 2 octets. > > You're joking. Which applications currently can handle more than > a 7 bit characters with Unix files ? All Applications on my Unix system, for example $ touch Ölüberschuß.txt $ ls Ö* Ölüberschuß.txt $ ls Ö* | od -t x1 -c 0000000 c3 96 6c c3 bc 62 65 72 73 63 68 75 c3 9f 2e 74 303 226 l 303 274 b e r s c h u 303 237 . t 0000020 78 74 0a x t \n 0000023 $ rm Ölüberschuß.txt Janis