Chris Travers <chris.travers@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > As for whether UTF-8 is the default, it is in many cases, but I remember > struggling with the fact that a few Linux distros still default to > SQL-ASCII. Ultimately this is something of a packaging issue and the > default may be set at the package level. Actually, the default is taken from the locale environment that initdb sees. So it's a question of what the distro initializes LANG to (and whether you've changed that, either system-wide or for the postgres user). regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
