From: | Leif Biberg Kristensen <leif(at)solumslekt(dot)org> |
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To: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Overriding local encoding defaults |
Date: | 2010-10-17 13:50:03 |
Message-ID: | 201010171550.03440.leif@solumslekt.org |
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On Sunday 17. October 2010 15.03.52 Bob McConnell wrote:
> I am trying to create a Pg 8.4 cluster with UTF8 encoding for JDBC
> access. But initdb insists that because my local console is en_US, it
> cannot do that. We're talking about setting up a server here. Why should
> it even care what the local console settings are? initdb and pg_ctl are
> the only commands that will ever be run through that console.
>
> Is there any way to force initdb to ignore the local environment and use
> UTF8?
>
> If not, how do I modify the local console to match the UTF8 requirement?
> This is on Slackware/64 13.1.0.
Don't know Slackware, but in Gentoo I've got a file /etc/env.d/02locale which
just says:
LC_ALL="nb_NO.UTF-8"
You should probably also set up your locales in the /etc/locale.gen and then
run the command locale-gen from root. At least that's how it's done in Gentoo.
Regards,
Leif Biberg Kristensen
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