On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Trevor Talbot wrote: > I'm not entirely sure how that's supposed to solve the client > authentication issue though. Demanding that clients present auth data > in UTF-8 is no different than demanding they present it in the > encoding it was entered in originally... Oh no, it's a big difference: PREDICTABILITY! Why must I guess the encoding used by the administrator? What if he's Chinese? Instead, I know the cluster's encoding, just as I know the server name and the TCP port. And the connection handshake carries on without misunderstandings (read wrong encoding).
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