Re: sqlite3

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> No, the usual way is to use ENCODE_FILE, but sqlite3 explicitly wants
> file names encoded in UTF-8 regardless of the locale's encoding,
> AFAIU.

Oh, wow.  That's weird.  Is that common?  I can't recall seeing anything
like that with other libraries, but perhaps I'm just misremembering.

> So the question is: do we tolerate eight-bit raw bytes in file names
> passed to sqlite3?

If this is really the case (and the documentation isn't just glossing
over details), then I guess we don't tolerate that?

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