Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com> writes:
> I don't know enough about the issues involved. Can we reasonably tell
> that a particular locale and encoding don't make sense together (apart
> from things like looking for UTF-8 in the name for example)?
There was some discussion about this a week or two ago. Apparently,
glibc has a way to ask what character set a given locale expects,
but there's no such capability in the C standards, so it's not portable.
Since glibc-based systems seem to be the main ones guilty of defaulting
to non-C locales, perhaps it would be Good Enough (TM) to make the check
on glibc, and assume that the user knows what he's doing elsewhere.
Needs thought though.
regards, tom lane