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

Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> writes:

Am 28.04.2025 um 13:30 schrieb Bonita Montero:
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How often would there be users using different locales on the same
machine?

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With Unix there's no locale defined for filesystem operations; it's
arbitrary.

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And imagine that you have a tar-archive packed by someone with a
different locale; that's rather likely.

 The data in the tar archive is locale-independent.   Always.

The file name stored in the archive is a stream of bytes,
it's always the same regardless of the active locale or
the current font.