Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > > Is there any way to select the UTF-8 as server-side
> > encoding at initdb
> > > time?
> >
> > > This guy reported he wasn't able to do it:
> > >
> > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers-win32/2004-11/msg00062.ph
> > > p
> >
> > That was 8.0. My recollection is we fixed it for 8.1. You
> > might have to use an explicit --encoding switch, because I
> > don't think Windows has any locale settings that map to utf8,
> > but I might be wrong ...
>
> Yup, it was fixed in 8.1.
Ok, thanks.
> The installer for 8.1 will let you pick UNICODE encoding during setup.
What if he uses initdb directly?
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