Re: Show encoding in initdb messages - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Show encoding in initdb messages
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Msg-id 200406211746.56414.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: Show encoding in initdb messages  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Show encoding in initdb messages  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> What I personally wish we could do is eliminate database encoding as
> a separate setting altogether, and drive it off the locale selection.
> I don't know how to do that though.

The information is available:

$ LANG=de_DE locale charmap
ISO-8859-1
$ LANG=de_DE@euro locale charmap
ISO-8859-15
$ LANG=de_DE.utf8 locale charmap
UTF-8

But the answer space is infinite:

$ LANG=C locale charmap
ANSI_X3.4-1968

I suspect Japanese users will also have a problem with this mechanism,
but at least we could keep -E to override the automatic selection.


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