Tom Lane wrote: > Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takah...@oss.ntt.co.jp> writes: > > Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote: > >> On Wednesday 17 June 2009 14:29:26 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 for psql, but -1 for libpq. > > What would make sense to me is for libpq to provide the *code* for this, > but then leave it up to the client application whether to actually call > it; if not the behavior stays the same as before. Aside from > Itagaki-san's objections, that eliminates backwards-compatibility issues > for other applications.
Added to TODO: Add code to detect client encoding and locale from the operating system environment * http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-06/msg01040.php -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers