Re: Problem of a server gettext message.

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> When the server wants to send an error message to the client, it will
> convert them from the server to the client encoding. The English
> messages are ASCII, so this will work, because server encodings are
> required to be ASCII compatible. The result of the gettext calls,
> however, is encoded in EUC-JP, so the server will take the EUC-JP
> bytes and attempt to do a UTF-8 to SJIS conversion on them. This will
> cause a crash.

The problem here basically comes from the fact that gettext looks to
LC_CTYPE to decide what encoding it's supposed to convert to (and I
suppose it punts when LC_CTYPE = C). Does it have a way by which we
could override that, to tell it the actual DB encoding regardless
of the locale environment?

regards, tom lane