Re: locale and encoding

From: Weiping He <laser(at)zhengmai(dot)com(dot)cn>
To: Kathy zhu <Kathy(dot)zhu(at)Sun(dot)COM>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: locale and encoding
Date: 2003-08-11 17:12:27
Message-ID: 3F37CE7B.3010202@zhengmai.com.cn
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Kathy zhu wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> What are the relationship/dependencies between encoding and locale
> settings ??
>
> thanks,
> kathy
>
It seems that locale support come from the OS, but encodings are build into
postgresql, and locale seems only support single byte character, but
encodings
can support multibyte character like Chinese, Japanese etc.

Basically, I think they are different kind of things.

regards

Laser

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