Re: trouble with to_char('L')

From: Mikko <mhannesy(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: trouble with to_char('L')
Date: 2009-04-22 17:06:24
Message-ID: 40c6d9160904221006k202284c8y305123f66beeaacb@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Ouch ... I thought that was the way that Windows designated UTF8
> locales, but maybe I am wrong.

Ok, now I found out that Windows doesn't support locales with encoding
using more than two bytes per character and initdb falls back to 1252.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x99tb11d.aspx

I guess I'll have to manage with win1252 encoded dbs for the moment.
Thanks for the answers!

Mikko

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