Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > For glibc systems we can get 100% reliable results. Even for other > systems there's standard code out there for determining the charset. > But this has been discussed before: > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2003-05/msg00744.php > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2004-04/msg00470.php > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-06/msg01027.php > > It seems to me that setting the client encoding based on the > client-locale is the *only* sensible way of doing it. The locale is > going to effect the results of programs like sort and any scripts used > to process the data anyway. Yes please. This would make the pgsql-es-ayuda list lose a small but measurable amount of its traffic (which I won't miss). Non-matching \encoding settings is just too frequent. FWIW I'm not sure if it really belongs in libpq, or it must be rather in psql (and thus in every client). -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
