Re: locale and character set

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>Am Donnerstag, 31. März 2005 15:49 schrieb Tsirkin Evgeny:
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>>Is there any relation between the locale and character set?
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>Every locale expects a certain character set to be used.  You can find that
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>$ LC_ALL=foo locale charmap
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>If you want things to function correctly, you have to use a character set that
>matches the one the locale expects.
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Of course i understand that i was just interested in cases were no
particular charset is inforced like SQL_ASCII
but i still want the sorting and searching to work.
The question is also in such case what the server will do if it finds a
character that is not utf-8 ?
I understand from manual that it just show it's hex value ,is that right?

>>For example if i store the data as sql_ascii can i still use the locale
>>as utf-8?
>>In my case i have the data stored as ascii but i just know it is
>>actually utf-8 and i am doing upgrade ,
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>That should work, but of course you have no guarantees that the UTF-8 is
>valid, so the sorting routines and others may behave erratically if they find
>an error.
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The question is how it will behave will this eraise an error or it will
just not sork correctly?