Re: rc4 and rc3, some deleted, but still needed text in the

Magnus Hagander wrote:
>This information is still in the documentation, it has moved to a
>different location. It's in the docmentation for the psql tool now.
>(It's under Client Application)

Yes it is, but the message in the source code has not been changed,
which is very misleading,
as  you can see here:
g:\home\cb>psql -U postgres template1
Password:
Welcome to psql 8.0.0rc5, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
......
Warning: Console codepage (850) differs from windows codepage (1252)
         8-bit characters will not work correctly. See PostgreSQL
         documentation "Installation on Windows" for details.

Regards
Christoph Becker


Magnus Hagander schrieb:

>>If PostgreSQL is intalled with native language support with
>>the windows installer and if German is used as locale, local
>>characters like Umlaute are displayed wrong in the windows
>>command window. In PG-Admin's Helpfile, which is from beta5,
>>but no longer in the documentation of version rc3 and rc4,
>>the following advice can be found:
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>This information is still in the documentation, it has moved to a
>different location. It's in the docmentation for the psql tool now.
>(It's under Client Application)
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>>Perhaps on Windows, PostgreSQL should itself send "cmd.exe /c
>>chcp 1252"
>>to the console if needed.
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>1252 is not valid for all installations. Only for Latin-1 installations.
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>That said, it should be possible to determine this from the system
>locale on installation time and put that in the shortcut. Please
>register a feature request on the pgFoundry page for this so it's not
>forgotten. It won't be there in time for 8.0, but it shouldn't be too
>much work to add it in a followon release.
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>//Magnus
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