Re: initdb: invalid locale name "sv_SE.ISO-8859-1"

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 10:05:33AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Check whether this locale exists in /etc/locale.gen. If the name
> > doesn't exactly match, postgresql will complain that it doesn't know
> > it.
>
> I think the more portable way to discover what locale names the OS
> knows is "locale -a" ... /etc/locale.gen doesn't exist on my machines.

Debian and Ubuntu stopped shipping complete locale databases a long
time ago, it was way too large for a base system (>50MB IIRC). So
there's now a file where you list the locales you want and it creates a
database with just that.

> FWIW, on the machines I have access to, "sv_SE.iso88591" seems to be the
> standard spelling for this locale name; for instance on Fedora Core 5

locale... standard spelling... Heh, this is one area where "standard"
doesn't mean very much.

Have a nice day,
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