Why there is no Unicode as option during initdb. There are some encodings, but not all alisted in PostgreSQL manual ? How different SQL ASCII is from Unicode ?

----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Zlatko Matić" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] templates, encoding


=?iso-8859-2?Q?Zlatko_Mati=E6?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
My template0 and template1 have SQL ASCII encoding, while I created a =
database with UNICODE encoding.
Could it cause some conflicts ? If so, how can I change templates =
databases to be UNICODE as well ?

The real question is whether the database's locale setting is compatible
with Unicode (utf-8).  If not, you're going to see some problems with
comparing and sorting non-ASCII characters.

initdb is the only way to fix a bad choice of locale, unfortunately.

regards, tom lane

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