Re: SQL_ASCII vs. 7-bit ASCII encodings

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SQL_ASCII vs. 7-bit ASCII encodings
Date: 2005-05-12 14:33:43
Message-ID: 464.1115908423@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> In 8.0, the de facto default encoding is no longer SQL_ASCII, so that
>> problem should go away over time.

> My 8.0.0 (what I happen to have on hand) initdb creates a SQL_ASCII
> cluster by default unless I specify -E.

This would depend on what your LANG/LC_ALL environment is. I think
Peter is assuming that more and more systems default to setting up
non-C locale settings for users. Which is probably true but I have
no idea about total numbers.

regards, tom lane

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