Teodor Sigaev wrote: > >> --- how do many languages use ISO8859-1 locale?. > > ISO8859-1 is encoding, not locale. > > I meant, if we'll use encoding name (for example PG_LATIN1) we couldn't > distinguish languages which use that encoding (for example italian and > finnish and some more), but using locale names it's possible: > it_IT.ISO8859-1, fi_FI.ISO8859-1
I don't understand. Why use "it_IT.ISO8859-1"? You just need to know the language, so "it" is enough. The _IT part specifies that it's the italian spoken in Italy. This may be irrelevant in most cases, but consider that pt_PT and pt_BR are AFAIK somewhat different languages. I very much doubt that the different spanishes are any different in the stemming rules, so there's no need for es_ES, es_PE, es_AR, es_CL etc; but in the case of portuguese I'm not so sure. Maybe there are other examples (like chinese, but I'm not sure how useful is tsearch for chinese). And the .ISO8859-1 part you don't need at all if you accept that the files are UTF8 by design, as Tom proposed. -- Alvaro Herrera Developer, http://www.PostgreSQL.org/ "Nadie esta tan esclavizado como el que se cree libre no siendolo" (Goethe) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly