Re: Fwd: LMDB and text encoding

DB names are purely internal to LMDB, so they bear no relation to OS filenames and none of this discussion matters to them.

If we let the users treat db names as an MDB_val (essentially, an arbitrary byte array), then all bets are off: we can't even make the assumption that a db name is meaningful text in any encoding. We can make it possible to type such a thing in the console if we represent it as a string of hexadecimal numbers. For example, mdb_dump could do something like to_hex_string in this code snippet: http://pastebin.com/jqnGSS6C (note: you need -std=c11 to compile the snippet).