> > 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.
The installer for 8.1 will let you pick UNICODE encoding during setup.
//Magnus