Re: Locale + encoding combinations

Dave Page wrote:
> setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "English_United Kingdom.65001")
>
> will return null (and not change anything) because it doesn't like
> the combination of the locale and that encoding (UTF-8).

The reason that that call fails is probably that the operating system 
does not provide such a locale.  But that's not what we are interested 
in.  We are interested in compatibility between *existing* operating 
system locales and *PostgreSQL* encoding names.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/