Re: SQL_ASCII vs. 7-bit ASCII encodings - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: SQL_ASCII vs. 7-bit ASCII encodings
Date
Msg-id 464.1115908423@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: SQL_ASCII vs. 7-bit ASCII encodings  (Oliver Jowett <oliver@opencloud.com>)
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Oliver Jowett <oliver@opencloud.com> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> In 8.0, the de facto default encoding is no longer SQL_ASCII, so that
>> problem should go away over time.

> My 8.0.0 (what I happen to have on hand) initdb creates a SQL_ASCII
> cluster by default unless I specify -E.

This would depend on what your LANG/LC_ALL environment is.  I think
Peter is assuming that more and more systems default to setting up
non-C locale settings for users.  Which is probably true but I have
no idea about total numbers.
        regards, tom lane


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