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Re: character encoding in StartupMessage

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>

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From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: John DeSoi <desoi@pgedit.com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2006-02-28T06:45:25Z
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> I don't see any very nice solution at the moment.  Once we get support
> for per-column locales, it might be possible to declare that the shared
> catalogs are always in UTF8 encoding and get the necessary
> conversions to happen automatically.


At the very least, could we always convert dbnames and store them as 
their own encoding?  That way at least in HTML you can probably mark 
them out as having particular encodings or something...

Chris