Re: invalid byte sequence ?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andreas <maps(dot)on(at)gmx(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: invalid byte sequence ?
Date: 2006-08-24 13:45:23
Message-ID: 20060824134523.GC18349@alvh.no-ip.org
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Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

> For glibc systems we can get 100% reliable results. Even for other
> systems there's standard code out there for determining the charset.
> But this has been discussed before:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2003-05/msg00744.php
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2004-04/msg00470.php
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-06/msg01027.php
>
> It seems to me that setting the client encoding based on the
> client-locale is the *only* sensible way of doing it. The locale is
> going to effect the results of programs like sort and any scripts used
> to process the data anyway.

Yes please. This would make the pgsql-es-ayuda list lose a small but
measurable amount of its traffic (which I won't miss). Non-matching
\encoding settings is just too frequent.

FWIW I'm not sure if it really belongs in libpq, or it must be rather in
psql (and thus in every client).

--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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