Обсуждение: tsearch2, locale, UTF-8 and Windows
Over the past few days, I have been reading everything I could about tsearch2, but I cannot figure out what the latest status is concerning the "default locale" on a Windows UTF-8 database under PostgreSQL 8.2.
More specifically, I have a UTF-8 database containing information in five different European languages (English, French, Spanish, German and Italian). I am coding on a Windows system with locale French_Canada.1252. The server that will soon run the database will likely have locale en_US... I am at a loss concerning the locale with which I should initdb on my system!!!
What am I getting myself into? A lot of what I read on this matter was pretty bleak; has version 8.2 cleared all that? What is the latest word on this?
More specifically, I have a UTF-8 database containing information in five different European languages (English, French, Spanish, German and Italian). I am coding on a Windows system with locale French_Canada.1252. The server that will soon run the database will likely have locale en_US... I am at a loss concerning the locale with which I should initdb on my system!!!
What am I getting myself into? A lot of what I read on this matter was pretty bleak; has version 8.2 cleared all that? What is the latest word on this?
Just to pinpoint the meaning of my dismay, let me add one comment to my previous post.
In the What'sNew document for tsearch2 with 8.2
http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/wiki/Tsearch2WhatsNew
we read:
> Don't forget to initdb cluster with correct utf8-locale !
> initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql-dev/data.el_utf8 --locale=el_GR.utf8
I have never seen any detail of what was meant by the "correct" locale. Clearly if I was using a database with French content on a French system, I would intuitively choose fr_FR.utf8 as the locale, but if my database contains texts in several languages (see quoted post below), I don't know on what factor to base my choice of initdb locale.
Suggestions?
On Jan 28, 3:28 am, pierd...@gmail.com ("Pierre Thibaudeau") wrote:
> [...] I cannot figure out what the latest status is concerning the
> "default locale" on a Windows UTF-8 database under PostgreSQL 8.2.
>
> [...] I have a UTF-8 database containing information in five
> different European languages (English, French, Spanish, German and
> Italian). I am coding on a Windows system with locale French_Canada.1252.
> The server that will soon run the database will likely have locale en_US...
In the What'sNew document for tsearch2 with 8.2
http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/wiki/Tsearch2WhatsNew
we read:
> Don't forget to initdb cluster with correct utf8-locale !
> initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql-dev/data.el_utf8 --locale=el_GR.utf8
I have never seen any detail of what was meant by the "correct" locale. Clearly if I was using a database with French content on a French system, I would intuitively choose fr_FR.utf8 as the locale, but if my database contains texts in several languages (see quoted post below), I don't know on what factor to base my choice of initdb locale.
Suggestions?
On Jan 28, 3:28 am, pierd...@gmail.com ("Pierre Thibaudeau") wrote:
> [...] I cannot figure out what the latest status is concerning the
> "default locale" on a Windows UTF-8 database under PostgreSQL 8.2.
>
> [...] I have a UTF-8 database containing information in five
> different European languages (English, French, Spanish, German and
> Italian). I am coding on a Windows system with locale French_Canada.1252.
> The server that will soon run the database will likely have locale en_US...