Am Samstag, 6. Oktober 2007 schrieb Tom Lane: > It's not real clear to me whether, on a Unix machine, there is even > supposed to be any difference between setting LC_TIME=es_ES.iso88591 and > setting it to es_ES.utf8. Since nl_langinfo(CODESET) is supposedly > determined only by LC_CTYPE, you could argue that strftime's results > should be in that encoding regardless, and that the codeset component of > other LC_ variables should be ignored. Some experimentation suggests > that at least in glibc it doesn't work that way, and that there is in > fact no principled way for you to find out what encoding strftime is > giving you :-(.
It might be useful to research whether that behavior is following the spec (POSIX or whatever). -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
