[ic] UTF-8 in MySQL

[Elver Loho]

Btw, our current approach to supporting languages for which latin1
doesn't suffice is to store multibyte UTF-8 chars in the database and
then run it through our "encoding" tag, which simply replaces them
with their long equivalents in the form of Ӓ

Thus far it seems to work. And I think I'm gonna port the locale
system over to that approach today as well.


Elver