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

On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:58:46 +0200
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wibbled:

On 29/04/2025 01:13, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

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.
 

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When Unicode started, they thought 16 bits would be enough.  UCS2 made

They only had to check how many chinese pictograms there are to realise
that it was never going to be enough. Perhaps chinese wasn't considered
important back then.