Hi All,
I was going through the docs for Postgres 8 for info on setting the
character set (to UTF8). In the docs here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/multibyte.html#MULTIBYTE-CHARSET-SUPPORTED
I see:
Since these locale settings are frozen by initdb, the apparent flexibility to use different encodings in different
databasesof a cluster is more theoretical than real. It is likely that these mechanisms will be revisited in future
versionsof PostgreSQL. One way to use multiple encodings safely is to set the locale to C or POSIX during initdb,
thusdisabling any real locale awareness.
Does anyone know what "more theoretical than real" mean in this context?
If I set the locale to C, is it going to work correctly with UTF8
encoded data?
Thanks,
-j
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