Re: Rationale for aligning data on even bytes in a Unix shell file?

On 28.04.2025 20:38, Bonita Montero wrote:

Am 28.04.2025 um 20:05 schrieb Janis Papanagnou:
 

(I thought Windows would use "UCS2". Anyway; would 16 bit suffice to
support full Unicode; I thought it wouldn't, or only old restricted
versions of Unicode.)

 
Windows is UTF-16 since Windows 2000, UCS2 before.

Oh, so it's a multi-word encoding (like UTF-8 is a multi-byte encoding)
and a character not necessarily encoded with only one 16 bit word... -
...but then I wonder even more where you see an advantage.

Janis