Re: Should UTF-8 be allowed in comments?

Hello,

Friday, December 12, 2003, 10:56:06 AM, Kevin Dalley wrote:

> According to DBFORMAT:

>           Comments should consist only of characters in the set:

>           { tab (09h); space (20h) through tilde (7Eh) inclusive }

> Is this limit necessary with UTF-8 support?  There aren't many extra
> comments in the database, but it might be nice to allow comments in
> any language.

It's debatable, whether or not non-US-ASCII characters should be
allowed. Especially for application names ("# Submitted via:" - which
are also part of the so-called "comments"), I'd prefer not to have
non-US-ASCII characters in there. Comments in the database entry
aren't checked by the server software to follow the limitations
mentioned in DBFORMAT, so if someone would use 8bit-characters in
there, at least the server software would not complain.

- Joerg