Re: Determining client_encoding from client locale - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Wednesday 17 June 2009 14:29:26 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.

I have been requesting that for years, but the Japanese users/developers 
typically objected to that.  I think it's time to relaunch the campain, 
though.