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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: Rationale for aligning data on even bytes in a Unix shell file?
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scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:

> Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Am 29.04.2025 um 02:28 schrieb Scott Lurndal:
>>
>>> Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Am 28.04.2025 um 20:47 schrieb Richard Harnden:
>>>>
>>>>> On 28/04/2025 19:36, Bonita Montero wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Am 28.04.2025 um 18:59 schrieb Scott Lurndal:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Not really.  UTF-8 is UTF-8, regardless of the locale.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But UTF-8 isn't the standard locale for Unix filesystems
>>>>>> except with macOS.
>>>>>
>>>>> UTF-8 isn't a locale - it's an encoding.
>>>>
>>>> Idiot.
>>>> Type "locale" in the shell and thenn return.
>>>
>>> $ locale
>>> LANG=C
>>> LC_CTYPE="C"
>>> LC_NUMERIC=C
>>> LC_TIME="C"
>>> LC_COLLATE="C"
>>> LC_MONETARY="C"
>>> LC_MESSAGES="C"
>>> LC_PAPER="C"
>>> LC_NAME="C"
>>> LC_ADDRESS="C"
>>> LC_TELEPHONE="C"
>>> LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
>>> LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
>>> LC_ALL=
>>
>> For me:
>>
>> boni@Raubtier-Asyl:/mnt/c/Users/Boni$ locale
>> LANG=C.UTF-8
>> LANGUAGE=
>
> Same locale, different encoding.   As has been pointed out
> to you repeatedly.

I don't want to take sides in this exchange, but I feel obliged to
point out that, in the terminology of the ISO C standard, having a
different encoding implies being a different locale.  So it might be
good to specify a frame of reference for where the term "locale" has
its source, for the various respective comments being offered.