| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Preston Landers <pibble(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: database encoding "WIN" -- Western or Cyrillic? |
| Date: | 2005-02-15 14:47:14 |
| Message-ID: | 200502151547.15459.peter_e@gmx.net |
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Am Dienstag, 15. Februar 2005 00:09 schrieb Preston Landers:
> Assuming that it is indeed supposed to be Cyrillic, that leaves the
> question of how to create a Postgresql database using Windows CP 1252
> a.k.a. "Western" or "ANSI".
You don't. That encoding is not supported (mostly because no one has bothered
to implement it until now).
> I remain mystified why the "WIN" encoding would default to a fairly
> obscure Cyrillic encoding considering most Russian users that I know
> are using either KOI8 or Unicode.
Legacy.
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
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