> 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 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
