Re: Determining client_encoding from client locale

Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> We currently require that you set client_encoding correctly, or you get  
> garbage in psql and any other tool using libpq. How about setting  
> client_encoding automatically to match the client's locale? We have  
> pg_get_encoding_from_locale() function that we can use to extract the  
> encoding from LC_CTYPE. We could call that in libpq.

+1

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