On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:

> On 2/28/17, Scott Robison <sc...@casaderobison.com> wrote:
> >
> > The SQLite database storing the repository is UTF-8, or blobs in the
> > database are using UTF-8 encoded data that won't be transparently
> > transcoded by SQLite?
> >
>
> Neither.  The problem is that the Fossil implementation sometimes
> accesses string values using sqlite3_column_blob().  That works fine
> as long as the database encoding is UTF8, but falls down badly when
> the database encoding is UTF16.
>
> This isn't all that hard to fix.  The main challenge is finding every
> instance where it occurs.  And I have bigger fish to fry at the
> moment.
>

AH! I see. So it is blob related (yay me for thinking of that possibility)
but not quite in the way I imagined.

In any case, I like the documentation of UTF-8 only.

-- 
Scott Robison
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