Re: sqlite3

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> The documentation says "UTF-8", and my reading of that is that
> anything outside of that is likely to trigger "undefined behavior".
> There's also a question of whether we, the Emacs project, want to
> force using only valid UTF-8 in those interfaces.

As you can see from the tests, putting binary data into a TEXT field
works fine, so I think the documentation might be underdefined.

(And I think we do want to be able to put binary data into the
database.)

> A related issue is with encoding file names, which are also expected
> to be in UTF-8.  I don't know what will happen if a file name includes
> eight-bit raw bytes, for example.  At least in the Windows code in
> sqlite3, which I did read, the result will probably be a failure to
> access the file.

Yeah, file names are a separate issue, and we should encode them in the
usual ways we do.

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