Re: Cannot create UTF8 database

Thanks. It worked.
Ibrahim

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:58 AM, J. Carlos Muro <murojc(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I think you need to setup locale of the user who inits/runs the cluster
> (generally "postgres') to unicode in order to init a unicode cluster.
> Try to set your locale environment variables to for example
> LANG=xx_XX.UTF-8 (for example "en_US.UTF-8" or whichever on your
> convenience), then try to create your cluster.
>
> 2009/7/20 Ibrahim Shaame <ishaame(at)gmail(dot)com>
>
> I Have just installed version Postgresql-8.4.0 and when I run initdb -E
>> utf8 it tells me that the current local (LATIN1 or rather LC_CTYPE) cannot
>> accept the utf8. Then when I run initdb with the default local, I cannot
>> create a utf8 database any way (be it in psql or pgadmin3).
>>
>> Any hint?
>> I use Linux slamd64 12.2 (A Slackware dialect)
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ibrahim Shaame
>>
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