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<div class="">On Apr 23, 2015, at 9:41 AM, George Michaelson <<a href="mailto:ggm@apnic.net" class="">ggm@apnic.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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consumers of the WHOIS could feel differently about it.</span></div>
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<div class="">Aren’t other consumers of the RIPE Whois systems doing IRR mirroring? Would the data stores of those systems store UTF-8 without croaking? I do not know what types of data stores are used for the various IRRs, but I’ve certainly witnessed relational
databases setup for ASCII/Latin1 that would throw errors if told to store UTF-8. I know that our IRR only stores Latin1 (though we don’t mirror).</div>
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<div class="">-andy</div>
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