Jeff Davis wrote:
> Also, the query starts out as text, so we need a way to interpret the
> text in an encoding-independent way.
>
> So, I think ASCII is the natural choice here.
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It's not worth hanging up this facility over this issue, ISTM. If we
want something more that ASCII then a base64 or hex encoded string could
possibly meet the need in the first instance.
cheers
andrew