[db-wg] Regarding non-ASCII org-name

Hiya DB-WG,

As you may be aware, the org-name attribute in the organisation object
doesn't support non-ASCII characters such as "ö" (umlaut).

This presents an issue as for certain entities where that is part of the
legal name and thus not being able to represent the legally registered name.

I would like to ask the working group if this is something we consider a
real problem or just a thing that will stay like this.

I have 2 proposed solutions, either use Latin-1 for the org-name which
would fix my issue but not all issues, however may be the only possible
solution currently as the database uses Latin-1, alternative just use UTF-8.

My personal example is my name being represented as "Revstrom" instead of
"Revström" in the database, this makes it so you might not be able to
search for the name registered in the database in government registers etc.

- Cynthia
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