Sujet : Re: Rationale for aligning data on even bytes in a Unix shell file?
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.lang.cDate : 28. Apr 2025, 02:22:44
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On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 20:32:58 +0200, Bonita Montero wrote:
Unix has a big problem that it doesn't support 16 bit character sets.
Win32 supported UCS-2 from the beginning and UTF-16 afaik since Windows
2000.
Unfortunately, Windows has had to deal with the UCS-2→UTF-16 encoding
kludge ever since then. Linux managed to avoid all that.