Is this a TODO?
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
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> >Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> >>But the answer space is infinite:
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> >>$ LANG=C locale charmap
> >>ANSI_
Tom Lane wrote:
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
But the answer space is infinite:
$ LANG=C locale charmap
ANSI_X3.4-1968
Right, the hard part is mapping whatever weird string "locale charmap"
chooses to return into one of the encodings our code knows about.
HPUX seems t
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But the answer space is infinite:
> $ LANG=C locale charmap
> ANSI_X3.4-1968
Right, the hard part is mapping whatever weird string "locale charmap"
chooses to return into one of the encodings our code knows about.
HPUX seems to be just arbitrarily b
Tom Lane wrote:
> What I personally wish we could do is eliminate database encoding as
> a separate setting altogether, and drive it off the locale selection.
> I don't know how to do that though.
The information is available:
$ LANG=de_DE locale charmap
ISO-8859-1
$ [EMAIL PROTECTED] locale char
"Magnus Hagander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> The reason it will help with support is because newbies will go
>>> "SQL_ASCII! I don't want ascii!".
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>> No they won't. They will likely not even notice this message
>> in the sea of other messages they've never seen before; and
>> even if t
> > The reason it will help with support is because newbies will go
> > "SQL_ASCII! I don't want ascii!".
>
> No they won't. They will likely not even notice this message
> in the sea of other messages they've never seen before; and
> even if they do notice it, they will certainly not realize
Christopher Kings-Lynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> This should save a lot of support requests, hopefully.
>>
>> I kinda doubt it will save any :-(. In what situation would this not
>> merely be echoing back what the guy had just specifically typed on the
>> command line?
> When no -E argume
This should save a lot of support requests, hopefully.
I kinda doubt it will save any :-(. In what situation would this not
merely be echoing back what the guy had just specifically typed on the
command line?
When no -E argument is supplied at all, or when they type ISO-8859-1
instead of LATIN1.
Christopher Kings-Lynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.
> The database cluster will be initialized with default encoding UNICODE.
> This should save a lot of support requests, hopefully.
I kinda doubt it will save any :-(. In what situation w
