I've made some tests to see what works and what does not. I downloaded pg
7.3.4 (which is more or less what is used in fedora) and current cvs. Both
compiled with the same flags and run in the same way.
pg 7.3.4
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Running LC_ALL=sv_SE postmaster and LC_ALL=sv_SE.UTF-8 postmaster
both produces messages with same encoding.
pg 7.5 (cvs)
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Running LC_ALL=sv_SE postmaster and LC_ALL=sv_SE.UTF-8 postmaster
produces messages with different encodings, either latin1 or utf-8
depending on the environment variable.
The only conclusion I have so far is that something have indeed changed in
pg after 7.3 and maybe in the future it will work a little better in
fedora and other dists.
The problems with client/server having different encodings still remains
to be solved. That is probably solvable by simply translating the messages
to client_encoding before sending. It does not sound very hard. The
language used should however also be that of the client and it might need
(a lot) more work.
A last question. Why is --enable-nls needed? Most other programs default
to that.
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/Dennis Björklund