In <[email protected]>, on 10/04/2013
   at 05:25 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> said:

>What is an example of a name that is not valid UTF-8?

An octet stream that does not conform to RFC 3629 or to the ISO/IEC
10646 documents on which it is based, e.g., C0 80.

>Should that be permitted?

IMHO, no.

>the "equivalency" (or not!) of año/ano

I'd consider that wrong, but what about año/anno in a Spanish locale?
 
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