Re: to --enable-locale or not to --enable-locale?

Le Vendredi 15 Mars 2002 17:19, Peter Eisentraut a écrit :
> --enable-recode is a simplified version of part (2) of multibyte, which
> only works for single-byte encodings.  It's mostly useful for environments
> where Unix and Windows use different character sets for the same language.
> (I think Czech was an example.)

As of PostgreSQL 7.2+, --enable--recode provides:
- Unicode <-> Latin1/Latin15 recoding,
- Unicode <-> SJIS (=Japanese Multibyte),
- and much more...

Client and server encodings can be set separately. Examples:
- CREATE DABASE foo WITH ENCODING 'Unicode';
- SET CLIENT_ENCODING = 'Latin9' (=ISO-8859-15) = Latin1 + euro symbol.

In pgAdmin2, we plan to take advantage of these new features to :
- change client encoding on the fly,
- display multi-byte text.

Cheers,
Jean-Michel POURE