[gdal-dev] What is status of RFC23?

[Mateusz Loskot]

Folks,

I'm trying to find what's the actual status of the RFC 23 [1]
The only reference I got so far is from its header:

"Status: Adopted (partially implemented)"

and 1.6.0 release notes [2]:

"RFC 23: Preliminary support for character set transcoding
(in OGR for now)."

but what does it mean?
What means preliminary and partially here?

Are the functions like OGRFeature::SetField and GetFieldAsString()
fully UTF-8 aware/enabled?

[1] http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc23_ogr_unicode
[2] http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.6.0-News

Best regards,
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