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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> Peter Eisentraut
> Sent: 08 December 2005 23:04
> To: pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: [pgadmin-hackers] Default encoding for new databases
> 
> pgadmin3 proposes UTF8 as the default for new databases.  
> While this is 
> undoubtedly a contribution to world peace, it's also an invitation to 
> create broken databases.  The default encoding should be the encoding 
> of template1 (or alternatively the template database chosen by the 
> user) so that it matches the initialized locale.  This is how the 
> command line works.  Other combinations will lead to databases with 
> unusable sorting behavior.  Please correct that.

Thanks, fixed (though I used template0 to get the default as it's less
likely to get dropped and possibly recreated in a different encoding).

Regards, Dave.

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