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From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Determining client_encoding from client locale
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Msg-id 20090617155421.GD6750@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Determining client_encoding from client locale  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: Determining client_encoding from client locale  (Greg Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> We currently require that you set client_encoding correctly, or you get  
> garbage in psql and any other tool using libpq. How about setting  
> client_encoding automatically to match the client's locale? We have  
> pg_get_encoding_from_locale() function that we can use to extract the  
> encoding from LC_CTYPE. We could call that in libpq.

+1

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