On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 18:56 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2008 schrieb Joost Kraaijeveld: > > Apparantly the default encoding for the database cluster is sql_ascii, > > maybe depending on environmental settings during installation (with > > aptitude). Please make it configurable during installation, or choose a > > wiser default, in which case UTF8 comes to mind (which is used in the > > Windows version also I seem to recall). > > The default encoding is set from the locale, and the default locale is > whatever your system's locale is. (You would get SQL_ASCII if your locale is > C.) If you don't like the result, it is perfectly acceptable to drop the > created cluster and create a new one with the settings of your choice. That is what I did, but I think it should be (preferably) configurable or done automatically with a more sensible default.
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