Re: UTF8 server-side on Win32?

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > > Is there any way to select the UTF-8 as server-side 
> > encoding at initdb 
> > > time?
> > 
> > > This guy reported he wasn't able to do it:
> > > 
> > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers-win32/2004-11/msg00062.ph
> > > p
> > 
> > That was 8.0.  My recollection is we fixed it for 8.1.  You 
> > might have to use an explicit --encoding switch, because I 
> > don't think Windows has any locale settings that map to utf8, 
> > but I might be wrong ...
> 
> Yup, it was fixed in 8.1.

Ok, thanks.

> The installer for 8.1 will let you pick UNICODE encoding during setup.

What if he uses initdb directly?


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