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Re: Fwd: LMDB and text encoding

To: Hallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
Subject: Re: Fwd: LMDB and text encoding
From: Timur Kristóf <timur.kristof@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 16:03:48 +0100
Cc: Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>, openldap-devel@openldap.org
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>> DB names are purely internal to LMDB, so they bear no relation to OS
>> filenames and none of this discussion matters to them.
>
> They're exposed to the programmer and the program's users.  Either may
> want them on command-line arguments, in config files, etc.  It will be
> inconvenient if LMDB requires different string handling for non-ASCII
> filenames and non-ASCII DB names in such cases.  The programmer may
> choose to use different string handling but let's try to avoid forcing
> him to do so.

A path is always a Unicode string, while a DB name can be an arbitrary
binary blob. So I don't think that we can treat them the same way.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Fwd: LMDB and text encoding
  - From: Hallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
- Re: Fwd: LMDB and text encoding
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References:
- Re: LMDB and text encoding
  - From: Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>
- Fwd: LMDB and text encoding
  - From: Timur Kristóf <timur.kristof@gmail.com>
- Re: Fwd: LMDB and text encoding
  - From: Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>
- Re: Fwd: LMDB and text encoding
  - From: Hallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
- Re: Fwd: LMDB and text encoding
  - From: Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>
- Re: Fwd: LMDB and text encoding
  - From: Hallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>

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