Re: UTF8 server-side on Win32?

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: UTF8 server-side on Win32?
Date: 2006-06-21 17:31:35
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCEA0FA64@algol.sollentuna.se
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> > Is there any way to select the UTF-8 as server-side
> encoding at initdb
> > time?
>
> > This guy reported he wasn't able to do it:
> >
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers-win32/2004-11/msg00062.ph
> > p
>
> That was 8.0. My recollection is we fixed it for 8.1. You
> might have to use an explicit --encoding switch, because I
> don't think Windows has any locale settings that map to utf8,
> but I might be wrong ...

Yup, it was fixed in 8.1.
The installer for 8.1 will let you pick UNICODE encoding during setup.

//Magnus

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