Bryan Green <dbryan.green@gmail.com> writes:
> On 12/15/2025 12:28 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> ... It did work if I set lc_messages to 'C.utf8', which is a
>> known name according to this box's "locale -a", but this doesn't give
>> me a warm feeling about this approach being a lot more portable than
>> what we have. Any ideas?
> My answer did not feel like it was right, so I checked multiple versions
> and realized there is a check.
> ...
> C.utf8 works because it is not "C" so is treated as a real locale.
Ah-hah. I didn't think they hadn't optimized the case at all.
Experimenting here, it looks like 'C.UTF-8' might be accepted
everywhere. I even got it to pass on Solaris's not-GNU gettext,
which I thought for sure would be the weak spot in the idea.
I'll press forward with that.
regards, tom lane
