Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Does "console code page" issue apply to - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Reini Urban
Subject Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Does "console code page" issue apply to
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Msg-id 41D044B1.2020400@x-ray.at
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In response to Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Does "console code page" issue apply to MinGW, Cygwin builds?  ("Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>)
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Magnus Hagander schrieb:
>>At the bottom of
>>http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/install-win32.html
>>there is some info about having to set the correct console
>>code page for psql.  Does this apply to the MinGW and/or
>>Cygwin builds, or is it only relevant for Visual C++ and
>>Borland C++ builds?  If the former, it's in the wrong place.
>>I am not sure what the right place is though.
>
>
> It definitly applies to the MinGW build. Not sure about Cygwin.

Cygwin ditto (see the note at the end), but previous cygwin builds (up
to 7.4.5 if I remember correctly) had only limited codepage support.

If unsupported by your cygwin build it will complain on initdb and/or
psql otherwise.
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Reini Urban
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