Re: More message encoding woes

Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Where does it get the default codeset from? Maybe we could constrain
>>> that to match the database encoding, the way we do for LC_COLLATE/CTYPE?
>
>> 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.
>
> ... and even if we wanted to fiddle with it, that just moves the problem
> over to finding an LC_CTYPE value that matches the database encoding
> :-(.
>
> Yup, it's a mess. We'd have done this long ago if it were easy.
>
> 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.

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Heikki Linnakangas
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