#2 How Isobel will deal with different DBs charset encodings?

This is not a proposal, it's an input for discussion .
Isobel claims to support UNICODE almost everywhere.
But DBMS with which Isobel works won't likely do. Often
charset encoding has to be choosen during installation
of DBMS and cannot be changed.
Isobel also tries to keep DBMS tables as more readable
as possible.
So, how it's possible to store documents with one
encoding in an enviroment with another encoding (not
considering to store everithing in binary form)?

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Why not escaping characters?
We can use only standard ASCII and entity, like HTML ones:
e.g.: œ Latin Small Ligature OE
Pro: very easy to implement
Con: It won't be readable for non ASCII characters