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From: Isaac Morland <isaac.morland@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 19:14:30 -0400
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Subject: Re: Non-text mode for pg_dumpall
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On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 at 18:37, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:

Well, JSON is supposed to be UTF8. What should we do about database
> names that are not UTF8?
>

How can you have a database name that isn't encodeable in UTF-8? At this
point I'm pretty sure Unicode has subsumed essentially every character ever
mentioned in a standards document.

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr">On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 at 18:37, Andrew Duns=
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Well, JSON is supposed to be UTF8. What should we do about database <br>
names that are not UTF8?<br>
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#39;t encodeable in UTF-8? At this point I&#39;m pretty sure Unicode has su=
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