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cowloom wrote

Could cause issues if the compressed text file has to be read by another operating system, like in a dual boot situation, or if it gets copied to a flash drive and plugged into a Winblows/Mac PC.

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flabberghaster OP wrote

Not if it's part of the filesystem spec; in that case, the other OS's driver should transparently en/decode it. That's why I said filesystems, not having this as a userspace conversion.

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