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

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