Re: Locale + encoding combinations - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dave Page
Subject Re: Locale + encoding combinations
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Msg-id 470C9295.6060805@postgresql.org
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In response to Re: Locale + encoding combinations  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 10. Oktober 2007 schrieb Dave Page:
>> Latin1 is a perfectly valid encoding for my locale English_United
>> Kingdom. It is accepted by setlocale for LC_ALL.
>>
>> Why does initdb reject it? Why does it insist the encoding is not valid
>> for the locale?
> 
> Because initdb works with a finite list of known matches, and your particular 
> combination might not be in that list -- yet.

So is it just a case of us generating a list of matches that may be
Windows specific, or is there more to it than that?

/D


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