Re: More Code Page wierdness - Mailing list pgsql-hackers-win32

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: More Code Page wierdness
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Msg-id 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE476561@algol.sollentuna.se
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In response to More Code Page wierdness  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: More Code Page wierdness  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
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> > The problem seemed to be code page related...
>
> > If you set listen_addresses="*" then the pgsql server doesn't
> > recognise this because * in one code page is different from * in
> > another. It looks like a *, but it isn't...
>
> I don't even know what a code page is, let alone what you
> envision us doing about it.  How can my response to the above
> be anything except "Windows is too horribly broken to even
> contemplate supporting"?

Code page = encoding. Or to use the exact definition from MSDN: "A table
that associates specific ASCII or EBCDIC values with specific
characters."

//Magnus

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