"Ben-Nes Michael" <miki@canaan.co.il> writes:
> any one has idea why i cant run
> initdb -D testing_locale -E hebrew testing_locale/
> initdb: hebrew is not a valid backend encoding name
> in the locale i do have hebrew / he_IL
Locale and encoding are not at all the same thing.
I don't know offhand which character set you need to support Hebrew.
Unicode would work, but maybe there's an ISO8859 set that will do.
regards, tom lane