Re: Question for Postgres 8.3 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From rihad
Subject Re: Question for Postgres 8.3
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In response to Question for Postgres 8.3  (Clemens Schwaighofer <cs@tequila.co.jp>)
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> If you want to support multiple encodings, the only safe locale choice
> is (and always has been) C.

I should be ashamed for asking this, but would someone care to tell me
how encoding differs from locale?

My postgresql FreeBSD rcNG script reads:

postgresql_initdb_flags=${postgresql_initdb_flags:-"--encoding=utf-8
--lc-collate=C"}

As I understand it collation is part of locale, but encoding is
"something else"?

Thanks.

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