Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>
> client_encoding defaults to server_encoding, which is correct in the
> typical environment where the client and the server have identical
> locale settings, which I believe is why we don't see more confused
> users on mailing lists. However, a partner of ours was recently bitten
> by this. That was on Windows; I'm not 100% sure if LC_CTYPE is set
> correctly there by default, but this seems like a good idea nevertheless.
>
IIRC Windows locales are not set via the environment. We've had to do
some special hackery in a few placed to deal with that.
cheers
andrew
