echo $LANG returns "C".
I think postgres needs "EUC_US", "EUC_JP" ...
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] create db with -E
> From: Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com>
> To: Kathy Zhu <Kathy.Zhu@sun.com>
> Cc: peter_e@gmx.net, Postgres general mailing list
<pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
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> Date: 16 May 2003 17:33:42 +0200
>
> On my system (redhat linux) that's:
> echo $LANG
> i.e. the LANG environment variable is used by all well behaved programs
> to set their character encoding.
>
> HTH,
> Csaba.
>
> On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 16:57, Kathy Zhu wrote:
> > When I do, I got a list back. I wonder how to get the property name whose
value
> > is "en_US.UTF-8" ?? That's the value I want to get to pass to -E.
> > Thanks,
> > kathy
> >
> > #lang -a
> > POSIX
> > common
> > en_US.UTF-8
> > C
> > iso_8859_1
> >
> >
> >
> > > X-Unix-From: peter_e@gmx.net Tue May 13 03:25:23 2003
> > > Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 11:27:23 +0200 (CEST)
> > > From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
> > > X-X-Sender: peter@peter.localdomain
> > > To: Kathy Zhu <Kathy.Zhu@sun.com>
> > > cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> > > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] create db with -E
> > >
> > > Kathy Zhu writes:
> > >
> > > > how do dynamically (in script) figure out which encoding to use ("-E
xxx")
> > > > depending on the OS.
> > >
> > > locale -k charmap
> > >
> > > --
> > > Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net
> > >
> >
> >
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