RE: [INTERFACES] Spanish format on date and numbers

----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
To: Oscar Serrano <oserra@fondos.net>
Cc: <pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org>
Sent: Friday, November 26, 1999 8:00 PM
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Spanish format on date and numbers


> Oscar Serrano wrote:
> >
> > I'm from Spain. I've exported some tables from MS Access to Postgres.
You
> > know, in Spain, a number like this: 1,234.56 me write it like this:
1.234,56
> > i.e., the thousand separator is the "." and the decimal separator is the
","
>
> I have never tried, but when building postgresql from source,
> configure --enable-locale
> might be the answer? (cf. Oleg's page
http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/)
>
> Cheers,
>

Hi again :-)
Reading some web sites, it seems that, yes, I must use the --enable-locale
at configuration time.
And it seems that I must first define and export the variables LANG, LC_ALL,
LC_CTYPE (and probably LC_COLLATE).
The LANG variable seems to must be: LANG="es_ES", for spanish configuration.
The LC_CTYPE must be something like this: LC_CTYPE="ISO8859-1". But, what is
the ISO for spain?

So, if I define this variables and use the --enable-locale, the psql will
return the numbers and dates in the spanish format?
I can't believe it.

Where are the files that defines how is the spanish format? You know, I'm
installing postgres in a ISP in USA, so very probably, the dedicated server
where I'm installing it, hasn't this files. I think I will need to modify
them, or to upload the spanish definition files.

Thank you very much.


> Patrick
>
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