Re: psql: set \encoding according to the current locale - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: psql: set \encoding according to the current locale
Date
Msg-id 200411020938.07697.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to psql: set \encoding according to the current locale  (Martin Pitt <martin@piware.de>)
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Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 22:59 schrieb Martin Pitt:
> Currently (i. e. in 7.4.6) psql seems to use the default database
> encoding as locale for both its own messages and for database output
> strings. Whereas it is only an inconvenience for the latter, psql's
> own messages should really respect LANG/LC_MESSAGES environment
> variables instead of the database encoding.

That's what it does.

> It would also be nice to call "set \encoding" to match the locale psql
> was called under, at least when it is called interactively.

There is no portable interface to match locale encodings to PostgreSQL's
encoding names.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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