Re: initdb: he_IL is not a valid backend encoding name - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: initdb: he_IL is not a valid backend encoding name
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Msg-id 6551.1037563975@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to initdb: he_IL is not a valid backend encoding name  ("Ben-Nes Michael" <miki@canaan.co.il>)
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"Ben-Nes Michael" <miki@canaan.co.il> writes:
> any one has idea why i cant run
> initdb -D testing_locale -E hebrew testing_locale/
> initdb: hebrew is not a valid backend encoding name

> in the locale i do have hebrew / he_IL

Locale and encoding are not at all the same thing.

I don't know offhand which character set you need to support Hebrew.
Unicode would work, but maybe there's an ISO8859 set that will do.

            regards, tom lane

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