Re: Determining client_encoding from client locale

Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>
> client_encoding defaults to server_encoding, which is correct in the 
> typical environment where the client and the server have identical 
> locale settings, which I believe is why we don't see more confused 
> users on mailing lists. However, a partner of ours was recently bitten 
> by this. That was on Windows; I'm not 100% sure if LC_CTYPE is set 
> correctly there by default, but this seems like a good idea nevertheless.
>

IIRC Windows locales are not set via the environment. We've had to do 
some special hackery in a few placed to deal with that.

cheers

andrew