[db-wg] Proposal to allow UTF8

Piotr,

On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 12:18:04 +0200
Piotr Strzyzewski <Piotr.Strzyzewski at polsl.pl> wrote:

> Proposal:
> 
> I propose to allow UTF8 in all free text attributes of all DB objects
> except in primary keys.

I think it makes sense.

As someone who only knows languages with Latin characters, it does make
me nervous to do a lookup and get back something like:

person:         Микки Маус
address:        Волшебное Королевство
phone-no:       +1 234 567 8901  # curse useless mandatory fields!
nic-hdl:        THE-MOUSE-RIPE
mnt-by:         MNT-GLOBAL-COPYRIGHT-POLICE
source:         RIPE

Because what does it even mean if you don't understand Cyrillic? (You
mention this specific issue in your proposal.)

But really, it's better to have correct information than to have
something forced into a specific format with an imperfect
approximation. We have Google Translate to try to guess what stuff
means. :)

Personally I think it could be used for primary keys too, but that can
always be added later.

Cheers,

--
Shane