Craig Ringer wrote: > Frank Sweetser wrote: > > > Unless, of course, you're at a good sized school with lots of > > international students, and have fileservers holding filenames created > > on desktops running in Chinese, Turkish, Russian, and other locales. > > What I struggle with here is why they're not using ru_RU.UTF-8, > cn_CN.UTF-8, etc as their locales. Why mix charsets? On my own desktop computer, I switched from Latin1 to UTF8 some two years ago, and I still have a mixture of file name encodings. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general