Re: Encoding and i18n

Gregory Stark wrote:
> "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>
> > Gregory Stark wrote:
> >
> >> So does the _() macro automatically recode it to the current server encoding?
> >
> > Well, I'm not sure if it's _(), elog() or what, but it does get recoded.
> > If I have a different client_encoding and get a NOTICE, then both the
> > server and client get a message in the corresponding encoding.
>
> Actually I was thinking about things like formatting.c which take localized
> strings and return them as data which can end up in the database. If they're
> in the wrong encoding then they'll be invalidly encoded strings in the
> database.

Oh, I didn't think of that. Let me see if I can get an invalid string
into the database that way.

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