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

Am 28.04.2025 um 10:08 schrieb Janis Papanagnou:

My file system (and obviously also the file systems of others that
are posting here) have no problems with any locale.

That's the problem: the filesystem should have a specific locale.
Otherwise you copy some files from a different computer where the
user has a different locale and you get Swahili-filenames.

The historic architecture of Linux file systems is able to represent
files having file names in arbitrary languages. That's why the Unix
file systems don't show the issues that other (popular) OSes show.

Windows only has UTF-16-filenames and nov varying locale.