Yep, that's how I understood it and I like the rest a lot, too. I just wanted to make make the sentence stand out, as it is so far below. BTW, the problem seems to be that postgres doesn't actually handle decomposed UTF-8 and is non-compliant in that regard:

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/53E1AB15.8050702@2ndqua...

So, probably making sure everything is in composed form before writing to the DB seems to be the best way to go.