Re: Windows default locale vs initdb

On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 4:47 AM Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote:

> As for whether "accordingly" still applies, by the logic of of
> win32_langinfo()...  Windows still considers WIN1252 to be the default
> ANSI code page for "en-US", though it'd work with UTF-8 too.  I'm not
> sure what to make of that.  The goal here was to give Windows users
> good defaults, but WIN1252 is probably not what most people actually
> want.  Hmph.
>

Still, WIN1252 is not the wrong answer for what we are asking. Even if you
enable UTF-8 support [1], the system will use the current default Windows
ANSI code page (ACP) for the locale and UTF-8 for the code page.

[1]
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/reference/setlocale-wsetlocale?view=msvc-170

Regards,

Juan José Santamaría Flecha