On Tue, 10 May 2022 at 07:07, Barry <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote: > POSIX tail just prints the bytes to the output that it finds between \n bytes. > At no time does it need to care about encodings as that is a problem solved > by the terminal software. I would not expect utf-16 to work with tail on > linux systems.
UTF-16 ASCII seems to work fine on my system, which probably means the terminal is just ignoring all the NUL bytes. But if there's a random 0x0A anywhere, it would probably be counted as a line break. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
