Re: More message encoding woes

On Monday 30 March 2009 21:04:00 Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Could we get away with just unconditionally calling
> >> bind_textdomain_codeset with *our* canonical spelling of the encoding
> >> name?  If it works, great, and if it doesn't, you get English.
> >
> > Yeah, that's better than nothing.
>
> A quick look at the output of "iconv --list" on Fedora 10 and OSX 10.5.6
> says that it would not work quite well enough.  The encoding names are
> similar but not identical --- in particular I notice a lot of
> discrepancies about dash versus underscore vs no separator at all.

I seem to recall that the encoding names are normalized by the C library 
somewhere, but I can't find the documentation now.  It might be worth trying 
anyway -- the above might not in fact be a problem.