[db-wg] Proposal to allow UTF8

Thu Apr 23 17:30:30 CEST 2015

On Apr 23, 2015, at 9:41 AM, George Michaelson <ggm at apnic.net<mailto:ggm at apnic.net>> wrote:

Other consumers of the WHOIS could feel differently about it.

Aren’t other consumers of the RIPE Whois systems doing IRR mirroring? Would the data stores of those systems store UTF-8 without croaking? I do not know what types of data stores are used for the various IRRs, but I’ve certainly witnessed relational databases setup for ASCII/Latin1 that would throw errors if told to store UTF-8. I know that our IRR only stores Latin1 (though we don’t mirror).

-andy
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