Re: initdb: invalid locale name "sv_SE.ISO-8859-1"

Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 09:43:31AM +0200, Ragnar =D6sterlund wrote:
>> I get the error:
>> initdb: invalid locale name "sv_SE.ISO-8859-1"

> Check whether this locale exists in /etc/locale.gen. If the name
> doesn't exactly match, postgresql will complain that it doesn't know
> it.

I think the more portable way to discover what locale names the OS
knows is "locale -a" ... /etc/locale.gen doesn't exist on my machines.

FWIW, on the machines I have access to, "sv_SE.iso88591" seems to be the
standard spelling for this locale name; for instance on Fedora Core 5

$ locale -a | grep sv
sv_FI
sv_FI.iso88591
sv_FI.iso885915@euro
sv_FI.utf8
sv_FI@euro
sv_SE
sv_SE.iso88591
sv_SE.iso885915
sv_SE.utf8
$

            regards, tom lane