> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> >>> This may be the only solution. Converting everything to UTF-8 has
> >>> issues because some encodings are not roundtrip-safe
>
> >> Is this still true?
>
> > I beleive so. If use the ICU Converter Explorer [1] to
> examine some of
> > the encodings we support, they have "Contains ambiguous
> aliases? TRUE".
>
> Which ones, and are they client-only encodings? If all our
> server-side encodings are round-trip safe then I think
> there's no big issue.
>
> In any case I don't think there's a huge problem if we say
> that database and user names had better be chosen from the
> round-trip-safe subset.
Doesn't this also affect passwords? If so it might be harder to enforce
as the user is often allowed to pick his own password...
//Magnus