Oliver Jowett <oliver@opencloud.com> writes:
> Jeff Davis wrote:
>> or at least blindly pass the bytes on to the server?
> What bytes? You have a bunch of UTF-16 characters (possibly with
> surrogate pairs etc). What encoding do you use to turn that into a
> bytestream?
It wouldn't be entirely unreasonable to define the answer as "UTF-8".
That would at least provide serviceable behavior to a goodly group of
users, whereas the current implementation seems guaranteed to fail
for everyone (other than us ASCII-only Neanderthals who don't care
anyway...)
regards, tom lane