Re: is win1250 supported encoding for PG7.5?

On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 01:29:34PM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>     I have only one questions. I am testing PostgreSQL for windows.
> All look well, but I can't set database encoding win1250. Its can be
> problem, because win1250 is often used encoding on win32 platform in our
> area. (PG7.5 don't support win1250 encoding on linux too).
>
> Administrator@NEMESIS /usr/local/pgsql/lib
> $ ../bin/createdb.exe -E win1250 aaa
> createdb.exe: database creation failed: ERROR:  win1250 is not a valid
> encoding name

        Shift JIS (Winindows-932)
        Big5 (Windows-950)
        GBK (Windows-936)
        UHC (Windows-949)
        windows-1250
        PG_GB18030

 are client encodings only. You can't  create DB in these encodings. I'm
 not sure if this behaviour is described in PostgreSQL's docs.

 For details see include/mb/pg_wchar.h

> I can set win1250 for client_encoding without problem. Its problem in my
> configuration or it's feature :-).

 That's right, it's  feature. I agree that it's a little  funny that you
 can't use native windows encoding in the native windows PostgreSQL port
 :-)

    Karel

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