| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pgsql: Use ICU by default at initdb time. |
| Date: | 2023-03-10 09:59:12 |
| Message-ID: | dab5ce1a-0f1d-38cd-1cb4-f2b0b2d229e0@enterprisedb.com |
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On 10.03.23 03:26, Jeff Davis wrote:
> That's because ICU always uses UTF-8 by default. ICU works just fine
> with many other encodings; is there a reason it doesn't take it from
> the environment just like for provider=libc?
I think originally the locale forced the encoding. With ICU, we have a
choice. We could either stick to the encoding suggested by the OS, or
pick our own.
Arguably, if we are going to nudge toward ICU, maybe we should nudge
toward UTF-8 as well.
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