Re: templates, encoding

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" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Zlatko Matić" <zlatko(dot)matic1(at)sb(dot)t-com(dot)hr>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] templates, encoding

> =?iso-8859-2?Q?Zlatko_Mati=E6?= <zlatko(dot)matic1(at)sb(dot)t-com(dot)hr> 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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