Re: bug when using special caracter in password for folder.

You should make a warning stating invalid caracter.

Thank you

It s solved on my side.

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> On Sep 4, 2024 at 12:55 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
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> =?UTF-8?Q?Fran=C3=A7ois_Jourdain?= <francois(dot)jourdain(at)hotmail(dot)com> writes:
> > I used a é in the password. Also, you can see the interface doesn't
> > support well french caracters. you should read S'il vous plaît in the
> > prompt.
> > the error i had, caused by é in the password, was :
> > postgresql l'installation peut avoir échoué l'initialisation du cluster
> > de bases de données a échoué
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> What this sounds like is an encoding problem. Non-ASCII characters
> such as é have different bit-level representations depending on
> whether you are using UTF-8, ISO 8859-1, WIN1252, etc. Unfortunately
> there's usually not a lot Postgres can do about this kind of thing,
> since it's impossible to guess reliably what encoding a chunk of text
> is meant to be in. You have to be careful to configure your operating
> system environment so that the same encoding assumptions prevail
> throughout.
>
> In any case, we definitely can do nothing about it with zero context
> information. You didn't even mention what OS you're using.
>
> regards, tom lane
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