Re: BUG #2685: Wrong charset of server messages on client

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Tom Lane wrote:

> Sergiy Vyshnevetskiy <serg@vostok.net> writes:
>>> It's not magic, it's from ICU patch. Want me to send you a copy? :)
>
> You're missing my point, which is that non-ICU locale support doesn't
> necessarily recognize the same encoding names.  We would have done this
> years ago if we had a solution to that problem.

We should use IANA-standard names. If it fails - it does nothing.
Anybody porting PostgreSQL to new platform can go over the list and make a
patch for their port.