Re: More message encoding woes

Tom Lane píše v po 30. 03. 2009 v 14:04 -0400:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Could we get away with just unconditionally calling
> >> bind_textdomain_codeset with *our* canonical spelling of the encoding
> >> name? If it works, great, and if it doesn't, you get English.
>
> > Yeah, that's better than nothing.
>
> A quick look at the output of "iconv --list" on Fedora 10 and OSX 10.5.6
> says that it would not work quite well enough. The encoding names are
> similar but not identical --- in particular I notice a lot of
> discrepancies about dash versus underscore vs no separator at all.

The same problem is with collation when you try restore database on
different OS. :(

Zdenek