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Re: Fwd: LMDB and text encoding

> I suggest we wait to deal with DB names until we also have a way to
> deal with filenames.  And this time test that it works is practice.
>
> And then I also suggest to try to make this mess simple to deal
> with for programmers and or users.  I guess I should have separated
> that from the rest more clearly.

I can write a patch which does the UTF-8 to UTF-16 conversion on
Windows for file paths, but I would hate to restrict db names to UTF-8
text only (or for that matter, any text only). However, not supporting
non-UTF-8 db names in mdb_dump and mdb_load sounds like a reasonable
compromise to me.