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

On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 09:28:14 +0200, Bonita Montero wrote:

Am 28.04.2025 um 06:47 schrieb Lawrence D'Oliveiro:
 

On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:28:05 +0200, Bonita Montero wrote:

 

Am 28.04.2025 um 03:22 schrieb Lawrence D'Oliveiro:

 

That's not true. The codepoints for the surrogates were unused before.

 

The problem is the fact that you have to deal with surrogates.

 
That's trivial.

I had to deal with it in Java code. It’s not trivial.

Far easier to have systems, like Python or Linux, which can deal with full
Unicode in a more native fashion.