Am Mittwoch, 23. April 2008 schrieb Tim Tassonis: > If specifying a characterset different from the default locale for a > database is such a bad idea, why is it possible at all? Because Japanese users need this functionality. Aside from spectacularly bizarre niche applications, that is really the only reason. If you are dealing with European-type languages, just forget about it and specify the locale you want to initdb and let the encodings fall into place.
