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Re: locale and german umlauts

Nishad Prakash <prakashn@uci.edu>

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From: Nishad Prakash <prakashn@uci.edu>
To: Wolfgang Winkler <Wolfgang.Winkler@digitali-concepts.com>
Cc: <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-08-07T17:53:45Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs 
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Wolfgang Winkler wrote:

> export LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO8859-1
> export LC_COLLATE=de_DE.ISO8859-1
>
> and make a database with
>
> createdb test.
>
> Is there something obvious I'm doing wrong?
>

Two things that could help:
1) Make sure the locale has been set before starting the postmaster
2) Try createdb -E <encoding> test

Nishad
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