On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Alvaro Herrera<alvhe...@commandprompt.com> wrote: > Heikki Linnakangas wrote: >> We currently require that you set client_encoding correctly, or you get >> garbage in psql and any other tool using libpq. How about setting >> client_encoding automatically to match the client's locale? We have >> pg_get_encoding_from_locale() function that we can use to extract the >> encoding from LC_CTYPE. We could call that in libpq. > > +1
I wonder if isatty() is true and we have terminfo information if there's a terminfo capability to query the terminal for the correct encoding. But yeah, +1 to automatically using the user's current encoding from LC_CTYPE. -- Gregory Stark -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
