On ons, 2009-11-25 at 00:14 +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> For the specific case here, where the locale is KOI8-R, we can
> determine at runtime that this isn't a UTF-8 locale and stay
> using ASCII. I'll be happy to send a patch in to correct this
> specific case.
There is already a proposed patch to set the client encoding from the
locale, but it is pending on some other API refactoring.
The problem at hand, however, is that psql -l happens before the client
encoding settings are applied, which should be fixed in any case.