Re: Encoding and i18n - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Gregory Stark
Subject Re: Encoding and i18n
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Msg-id 87sl4otgmo.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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In response to Re: Encoding and i18n  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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"Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:

> Gregory Stark wrote:
>> 
>> Reading the commit message about the TZ encoding issue I'm curious why this
>> isn't a more widespread problem. How does gettext now what encoding we want
>> messages in? How do we prevent things like to_char(now(),'month') from
>> producing strings in an encoding different from the database's encoding?
>
> The PO files include encoding information, so it's easy for the server
> to recode them from that to the server (or client) encoding, as
> appropriate.

So does the _() macro automatically recode it to the current server encoding?

--  Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB          http://www.enterprisedb.com


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