Re: [Bacula-users] Catastrophic changes to PostgreSQL 8.4

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Frank Sweetser <fs(at)WPI(dot)EDU>, Kern Sibbald <kern(at)sibbald(dot)com>, bacula-devel <bacula-devel(at)lists(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, bacula-users <bacula-users(at)lists(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Catastrophic changes to PostgreSQL 8.4
Date: 2009-12-03 21:00:03
Message-ID: 20091203210003.GO5059@alvh.no-ip.org
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Craig Ringer wrote:
> Frank Sweetser wrote:
>
> > Unless, of course, you're at a good sized school with lots of
> > international students, and have fileservers holding filenames created
> > on desktops running in Chinese, Turkish, Russian, and other locales.
>
> What I struggle with here is why they're not using ru_RU.UTF-8,
> cn_CN.UTF-8, etc as their locales. Why mix charsets?

On my own desktop computer, I switched from Latin1 to UTF8 some two
years ago, and I still have a mixture of file name encodings.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support

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