Re: trouble with to_char('L')

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Mikko <mhannesy@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-04-22T17:58:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general
Mikko escribió:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> > Ouch ... I thought that was the way that Windows designated UTF8
> > locales, but maybe I am wrong.
> 
> Ok, now I found out that Windows doesn't support locales with encoding
> using more than two bytes per character and initdb falls back to 1252.
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x99tb11d.aspx

Hmm.

Does this imply that we shouldn't allow UTF8 database on Windows at all?

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