Re: Windows and locales and UTF-8 (oh my)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Windows and locales and UTF-8 (oh my)
Date: 2007-10-15 17:17:59
Message-ID: 18302.1192468679@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hmm. If it doesn't need a special case, then we still lack an
>> explanation for the aforementioned bug report.

> From what I can tell that report doesn't tell us very much - we don't
> know server encoding, we don't know server locale, we don't even know
> client encoding. So I don't think we know anywhere *near* enough to say
> it's related to this.

In the followup we found out that he was using UTF-8 encoding:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2007-05/msg00264.php
So while that report certainly left a great deal to be desired in terms
of precision, my gut tells me it's related. Has anyone tried to
reproduce that behavior by initdb'ing 8.2 in a suitable UTF-8-using
Windows locale?

regards, tom lane

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