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

On 08.05.2025 05:30, BGB wrote:

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Though, even for the Latin alphabet, once one goes much outside of ASCII
and Latin-1, it gets messy.

I noticed that in several places you were referring to Latin-1. Since
decades that has been replaced by the Latin-9 (ISO 8859-15) character
set[*] for practical reasons ('€' sign, for example).

Why is your focus still on the old Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1) character set?

Janis, just curious

[*] Unless Unicode and its encodings are used.

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