Well a round-trip or two could still be ambiguous which could easily fail when comparing strings later in some edge case. Especially when we can't even consiste

Well a round-trip or two could still be ambiguous which could easily fail when comparing strings later in some edge case. Especially when we can't even consistently agree to use by-application, by-OS, by-language and by-locale settings consistently. I don't have a solution, just pointing out that this is a really challenging problem to fully solve.