> > Tom's suggestion does not sound reasonable to me. If PostgreSQL is not
> > built with MULTIBYTE, then it means there would be no such idea
> > "encoding" in PostgreSQL becuase there is no program to handle
> > encodings. Thus it would be meaningless to assign an "encoding" to a
> > database if MULTIBYTE is not enabled.
>
> Why? Without the MULTIBYTE code, the backend cannot perform character
> set translations --- but it's perfectly possible that someone might not
> need translations. A lot of European sites are probably very happy
> as long as the server gives them back the same 8-bit characters they
> stored.
Yes, that is what we do (German language). Encoding is Latin1.
Would it not be reasonable to return the machine LC_CTYPE in the non multibyte case ?
Andreas
