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by BeeOnRope 2719 days ago
Of course it's hairy - that's kind of the point of this whole discussion!

People who use databases naturally end up wanting to store Unicode strings, and people naturally want to query them in locale-sensitive ways. Your Mueller example is a fine example of this. Databases have deep support for this, and you can also build your own compromise, so to speak, on top of the database with ICU or another library if it doesn't meet your needs.

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Storing is fine!

Indexing is full of caveats, though.

Indexing is always full of caveats. :-)