Re: BUG #6510: A simple prompt is displayed using wrong charset

Excerpts from exclusion's message of sáb mar 03 15:44:37 -0300 2012:

> I'm using postgresSQL in Windows with Russian locale and get unreadable
> messages when the postgres utilities prompting me for input.
> Please look at the screenshot:
> http://oi44.tinypic.com/aotje8.jpg
> (The psql writes the unreadable message prompting for the password.)
> But at the same time the following message (WARINING) displayed right.
>
> I believe it's related to setlocale and the difference between OEM and ANSI
> encoding, which we had in Windows with the Russian locale.
> The startup code of psql sets locale with the call setlocale(LC_ALL, "") and
> MSDN documentation says that the call:
> Sets the locale to the default, which is the user-default ANSI code page
> obtained from the operating system.
>
> After the call all the strings printed with the printf(stdout) will go
> through the ANSI->OEM conversion.
>
> But in the simple_prompt function strings written to con, and such writes go
> without conversion.

Were you able to come up with some way to make this work?

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