Re: More message encoding woes

On Tuesday 07 April 2009 11:21:25 Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > In practice you get either the GNU or the Solaris version of gettext, and
> > at least the GNU version can cope with all the encoding names that the
> > currently Windows-only code path produces.
>
> It doesn't. On my laptop running Debian testing:
>
> hlinnaka(at)heikkilaptop:~$ LC_ALL=fi_FI.UTF-8 gettext
> gettext: ei riittävästi argumentteja
> hlinnaka(at)heikkilaptop:~$ LC_ALL=fi_FI.LATIN1 gettext
> gettext: missing arguments

That is because no locale by the name fi_FI.LATIN1 exists.

> hlinnaka(at)heikkilaptop:~$ LC_ALL=fi_FI.ISO-8859-1 gettext
> gettext: ei riitt�v�sti argumentteja
>
> Using the name for the latin1 encoding in the currently Windows-only
> mapping table, "LATIN1", you get no translation because that name is not
> recognized by the system. Using the other name "ISO-8859-1", it works.
> "LATIN1" is not listed in the output of locale -m either.

You are looking in the wrong place. What we need is for iconv to recognize
the encoding name used by PostgreSQL. iconv --list is the primary hint for
that.

The locale names provided by the operating system are arbitrary and unrelated.