Re: More message encoding woes

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: More message encoding woes
Date: 2009-03-31 21:46:42
Message-ID: 16964.1238536002@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> On Monday 30 March 2009 20:06:48 Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> LC_CTYPE. In 8.3 and up where we constrain that to match the database
>> encoding, we only have a problem with the C locale.

> Why don't we apply the same restriction to the C locale then?

(1) what would you constrain it to?

(2) historically we've allowed C locale to be used with any encoding,
and there are a *lot* of users depending on that (particularly in the
Far East, I gather).

regards, tom lane

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