On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 07:30:36AM +0100, Harald Armin Massa wrote: > Good default encoding: > > does somebody NOT agree that UTF8 is quite a recommendation, at least for > all the people without Korean, Japanese and Chinese Chars? I know, that's at > maximum 2/3 of our potential user base, but better then nothing. Umm, you should choose an encoding supported by your platform and the locales you use. For example, UTF-8 is a bad choice on *BSD because there is no collation support for UTF-8 on those platforms. On Linux/Glibc UTF-8 is well supported but you need to make sure the locale you initdb with is a UTF-8 locale. By and large postgres correctly autodetects the encoding from the locale. > Maybe we could even "suggest" UTF8 in the "getting started" (i.e. the > windows installer initdb screen, or other default installations) Sth. like > "if you do not know better, take utf8" UTF-8 on windows works pretty well. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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