Re: database encoding "WIN" -- Western or Cyrillic?

Am Dienstag, 15. Februar 2005 00:09 schrieb Preston Landers:
> Assuming that it is indeed supposed to be Cyrillic, that leaves the
> question of how to create a Postgresql database using Windows CP 1252
> a.k.a. "Western" or "ANSI".

You don't.  That encoding is not supported (mostly because no one has bothered
to implement it until now).

> I remain mystified why the "WIN" encoding would default to a fairly
> obscure Cyrillic encoding considering most Russian users that I know
> are using either KOI8 or Unicode.

Legacy.

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