On Mon, 2024-05-27 at 15:49 +0200, Peter wrote: > > (but of course SQL_ASCII is a mistake). > > Really? I re-read the chapter on Locale/CharSet Support, and I don't > see the mistake. Only one can not convert that to anything else, which > is fine in this usecase (storing arbitrary filenames from any OS in > any character-set within the same column). That will only work fine as long as everybody uses the same encoding, or everybody uses only ASCII characters, or everybody works only on their own data. Yours, Laurenz Albe