On Monday 30 March 2009 21:04:00 Tom Lane wrote: > Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> writes: > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> Could we get away with just unconditionally calling > >> bind_textdomain_codeset with *our* canonical spelling of the encoding > >> name? If it works, great, and if it doesn't, you get English. > > > > Yeah, that's better than nothing. > > A quick look at the output of "iconv --list" on Fedora 10 and OSX 10.5.6 > says that it would not work quite well enough. The encoding names are > similar but not identical --- in particular I notice a lot of > discrepancies about dash versus underscore vs no separator at all.
I seem to recall that the encoding names are normalized by the C library somewhere, but I can't find the documentation now. It might be worth trying anyway -- the above might not in fact be a problem. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
