character encoding in StartupMessage - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

I could not find anything in the Frontend/Backend protocol docs about  
character encoding in the StartupMessage. Assuming it is legal for a  
database or user name to have unicode characters, how is this handled  
when nothing yet has been said about the client encoding?

Thanks,


John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL