Re: UTF-8 collation on Windows? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: UTF-8 collation on Windows?
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Msg-id 53066672.3090407@aklaver.com
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In response to Re: UTF-8 collation on Windows?  (Dev Kumkar <devdas.kumkar@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
On 02/20/2014 12:27 PM, Dev Kumkar wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Adrian Klaver
> <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>> wrote:
>
>     Well I dug out a Windows machine and tried to get what you wanted,
>     to no avail. As far as I know there is no UTF8 collation, it is an
>     encoding. What you want if I am following, is the en_US locale (or
>     equivalent for another language) on Windows. Anything I tried
>     resolved back to a Windows code page. So the answer from my tests,
>     is no you cannot match en_US on Windows.
>
>
> Thanks for taking time out and looking into it !
> Yes all the scenarios we tested didn't work for any of the utf8 code
> pages specified on MSDN or may be I don't know the correct
> representation of "language_territory.code".

It seems to be more basic then that. Microsoft has its own locale
mechanism and you will always be redirected back to it.

>
> Regards...



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