I've been wondering about that. Great!
On 2000-01-18, Tatsuo Ishii mentioned:
> Hi,
>
> I have added two built-in functions:
> pg_char_to_encoding() -- convert encoding string to encoding id
> pg_encoding_to_char() -- convert encoding id to encoding string
>
> Main purpose for this is to allow psql -l to print encoding names
> rather than encoding ids (sample output from psql shown below) in a
> multibyte enabled installation.
>
> List of databases
> Database | Owner | Encoding
> ------------+---------+----------
> regression | t-ishii | EUC_JP
> template1 | t-ishii | EUC_JP
> test | t-ishii | EUC_JP
> (3 rows)
>
> This is much more "user friendly" IMHO.
>
> initdb required.
> --
> Tatsuo Ishii
>
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