Array access to type "name"

The type "name" can be subscripted like an array to access the individual
"char" elements.  But since a character stored in a "name" value isn't
necessarily one byte, this is incorrect.  Does anything rely on this
facility, or would it be better to remove it for type "name"?

Here's an example that produces a failure:

$ export PGCLIENTENCODING=latin1
$ createdb -E UNICODE test
$ psql test
=> create table åland (a int);
=> create table überschall (b int);
=> select relname[0] from pg_class;
ERROR:  Could not convert UTF-8 to ISO8859-1

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net