Re: Fwd: LMDB and text encoding

[Timur Kristóf <timur.kristof@gmail.com>]

>> 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.
>
>
> Not the point.  A program which uses LDMB can choose to treat its
> own DB names in its own LMDB environments as the same kind of
> strings as filenames (WCHAR, UTF-8 char, or whatever).  Unless we
> make that impossible.
>
> As for what LMDB will accept and what it must handle, that's up to
> us.  DB names are not binary blobs yet, after all.

Okay. What do you suggest?