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

On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:30:17 +0200
Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> wibbled:

Am 28.04.2025 um 13:01 schrieb Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org:
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I'd say logical. Why should the OS give a damn what locale the user is using
and hence the filename any more than it should care about whats inside the
file?

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To have filenames displayed the same way no matter what locale is
currently configured.

Who cares? If someone is that bothered stick to 7 bit ascii. The locale has
nothing to do with the OS, its an application and library concern. Why should
the OS - for example - waste its time verifying the filename only uses valid
c odes for the locale and what if someone unzips something that contains
filenames with a locale it doesn't support? Refuse to store the file? What a
load of BS.

Just allow a stream of bytes - excluding some forbidden chars such as "/" - and
leave it at that.

Similarly does the OS care what locale DNS names are in? No.

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.

Its not arbitray - there's no locale , end of.