Re: Encoding and i18n

Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> Reading the commit message about the TZ encoding issue I'm curious why this
> isn't a more widespread problem. How does gettext now what encoding we want
> messages in? How do we prevent things like to_char(now(),'month') from
> producing strings in an encoding different from the database's encoding?

The short answer is it's all a house of cards, and if you troll
the archives you will find plenty of bug reports traceable to
misconfiguration in this area. The recent attempt to enforce
that nl_langinfo(CODESET) matches the database encoding is a first
step towards making this more bulletproof, but we're finding out
that even that is harder than it looks.

regards, tom lane