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

On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 07:40:57 +0200, Bonita Montero wrote:

Am 29.04.2025 um 04:37 schrieb Lawrence D'Oliveiro:

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

Am 28.04.2025 um 06:47 schrieb Lawrence D'Oliveiro:
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On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:28:05 +0200, Bonita Montero wrote:

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

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

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

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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.

 
I've got my u16_feeder iterator for that I'n using for years.
It has the same semantics like a pointer in C++ and it's as easy to use.

So you had to roll your own code to deal with it. That’s OK. On POSIX
systems, we have iconv(3) when we need it.

<https://manpages.debian.org/iconv(3)>