Re: PostgreSQL Windows Installer defaults to "English_United States.1252" when choosing locale starting with "English"

Hi,

I'll have a look and revert.

On Sun, Jul 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM Ben Caspi <benc(at)aidoc(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In the past we reached out to you about the PostgreSQL Windows
> installer not having an option to modify the locale on installation,
> resulting in failures during upgrades due to mismatched locale versions.
>
> As a result you released installer version 15.13, which included a more
> inclusive locale flag which solves our problem.
>
> However, we recently noticed that when picking a locale starting with
> "English", the value post installation will always be "English_United
> States.1252".
>
> For example, we installed using locale "English, United Kingdom" and
> expected the locale value post installation to be "English_United
> Kingdom.1252". However, we saw it was installed with the "English_United
> States.1252" locale instead.
>
> We then tested multiple different locales and found this issue repeats
> only when choosing locales starting with "English".
>
> Is this the intended behavior? If not, we would appreciate a fix to this
> issue as it's blocking us from upgrading our machines holding older
> PostgreSQL versions.
>
> Thank you!
>
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