Piotr, On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 12:18:04 +0200 Piotr Strzyzewski <Piotr.Strzyzewski@polsl.pl> wrote:
Proposal:
I propose to allow UTF8 in all free text attributes of all DB objects except in primary keys.
I think it makes sense. As someone who only knows languages with Latin characters, it does make me nervous to do a lookup and get back something like: person: Микки Маус address: Волшебное Королевство phone-no: +1 234 567 8901 # curse useless mandatory fields! nic-hdl: THE-MOUSE-RIPE mnt-by: MNT-GLOBAL-COPYRIGHT-POLICE source: RIPE Because what does it even mean if you don't understand Cyrillic? (You mention this specific issue in your proposal.) But really, it's better to have correct information than to have something forced into a specific format with an imperfect approximation. We have Google Translate to try to guess what stuff means. :) Personally I think it could be used for primary keys too, but that can always be added later. Cheers, -- Shane