Re: Locale + encoding combinations

Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org> writes:
> However, setlocale() will also accept other valid combinations on
> Windows, which initdb will not, for example:
> "English_United Kingdom.28591" (Latin1)
> Is there any reason not to accept other combinations that setlocale() is
> happy with?

Are you certain that that acceptance actually represents support?
Have you checked that it rejects combinations involving real code
pages (ie, NOT 65001) that don't really work with the locale?
        regards, tom lane