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 11:39 schrieb Bonita Montero:
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Am 28.04.2025 um 11:31 schrieb Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org:

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Yes, Unix-APIs are really achaic. When you have a filename written
with ohne user's locale and another with a different locale reads
that he get's at most a partitially readable filename. For Janis
this seems to be flexibility, but for me that's a problem. A file-
system should have fixed charset, at best Unicode.

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I did have a look at how macOS / APFS handles this:
for macOS all filenames are UTF-8.

 No, unix (and macOS _is_ unix) filenames are a simple stream of
bytes with no meaning or semantic associated with the bytes other than the
terminating nul character and the directory separator character.