Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 22:59 schrieb Martin Pitt:
> Currently (i. e. in 7.4.6) psql seems to use the default database
> encoding as locale for both its own messages and for database output
> strings. Whereas it is only an inconvenience for the latter, psql's
> own messages should really respect LANG/LC_MESSAGES environment
> variables instead of the database encoding.
That's what it does.
> It would also be nice to call "set \encoding" to match the locale psql
> was called under, at least when it is called interactively.
There is no portable interface to match locale encodings to PostgreSQL's
encoding names.
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Peter Eisentraut
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