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  • Any default that isn't UTF-8 is wrong. Yes, really.

    • Uhm, that makes no sense. UTF-8 is an encoding, Unicode is a charset, and neither is a collation. F.ex., Ü will sort to different places depending on whether the collation is English or German (and may sort in yet otherwise in one of the Scandinavian languages, or in Turkish, or what have you). Whether you represent this character in Latin-1 or Unicode (happens to be the same codepoint in both charsets) and whether you encode the Unicode codepoint using UTF-8 or another encoding all has nothing to do with what the sort order of codepoints is.

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