Re: Re: BUG #11431: Failing to backup and restore a Windows postgres database, with Norwegian Bokmål locale.

On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 12:13:25PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> writes:
> > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 03:15:53PM -0700, Alon wrote:
> >> The pg_dump file contains this command:
> >> CREATE DATABASE workgroup WITH TEMPLATE = template0 ENCODING = 'UTF8'
> >> LC_COLLATE = 'Norwegian (Bokmål)_Norway.1252' LC_CTYPE = 'Norwegian
> >> (Bokmål)_Norway.1252';
>
> > In WIN1252, "e5 6c 29" is "ål)". We're likely failing to set client_encoding
> > at some essential point in the process.
>
> The level of stupidity needed to use non-ASCII characters in a locale name
> is breathtaking. What were Microsoft thinking?

Windows Vista did deprecate that locale name style in favor of "nb-NO".
setlocale(LC_x, "") still returns the old style, though. You need PostgreSQL
built with VS2012 or later to use "nb-NO" style; see IsoLocaleName().

> How are we supposed to
> guess what encoding applies when setting the encoding?

Windows functions with "char *" arguments where encoding matters typically
expect the argument to be in the Windows ANSI code page.