Excerpts from exclusion's message of s=C3=A1b mar 03 15:44:37 -0300 2012:
> I'm using postgresSQL in Windows with Russian locale and get unreadable
> messages when the postgres utilities prompting me for input.
> Please look at the screenshot:
> http://oi44.tinypic.com/aotje8.jpg
> (The psql writes the unreadable message prompting for the password.)
> But at the same time the following message (WARINING) displayed right.
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> I believe it's related to setlocale and the difference between OEM and AN=
SI
> encoding, which we had in Windows with the Russian locale.
> The startup code of psql sets locale with the call setlocale(LC_ALL, "") =
and
> MSDN documentation says that the call:
> Sets the locale to the default, which is the user-default ANSI code page
> obtained from the operating system.
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> After the call all the strings printed with the printf(stdout) will go
> through the ANSI->OEM conversion.
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> But in the simple_prompt function strings written to con, and such writes=
go
> without conversion.
Were you able to come up with some way to make this work?
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=C3=81lvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
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