Re: More message encoding woes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: More message encoding woes
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Msg-id 16964.1238536002@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: More message encoding woes  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On Monday 30 March 2009 20:06:48 Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> LC_CTYPE. In 8.3 and up where we constrain that to match the database
>> encoding, we only have a problem with the C locale.

> Why don't we apply the same restriction to the C locale then?

(1) what would you constrain it to?

(2) historically we've allowed C locale to be used with any encoding,
and there are a *lot* of users depending on that (particularly in the
Far East, I gather).
        regards, tom lane


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