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Comments: In-reply-to Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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I wrote:
> Well, there aren't going to be any ASCII characters that produce 12
> bytes, and probably not any LATIN1 characters either, so I think we
> could assume that the shortest input character that could produce
> such a long output would be 3 bytes.

Ah sorry, I should have written BMP not LATIN1.  Maybe it still holds
across that set, but I'm less sure.

			regards, tom lane