Re: OS Locale UTF-8

This would explain the similar failure that I reported and didn't get
around to digging into. Excellent.

andrew

Simon Riggs wrote:

>I have access to a system with locale of UTF-8. cvstip would no longer
>initdb on this system, as a result of recent renaming of UTF-8 to UTF8.
>
>i.e.
>[userid@systemname ~]$ locale
>LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
>LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
>LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
>LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
>LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
>LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
>LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
>LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
>LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
>LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
>LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
>LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
>LC_ALL=
>
>OS is Fedore Core 3.
>
>Attached patch adds UTF-8 as a synonym for UTF8, so initdb works again
>without needing to specify an encoding, just like it used to.
>
>Whatever we call UTF*8, there will always be somebody who says
>different.
>
>Best regards, Simon Riggs
>
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Index: initdb.c
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c,v
>retrieving revision 1.79
>diff -d -c -r1.79 initdb.c
>*** initdb.c    14 Mar 2005 18:31:23 -0000    1.79
>--- initdb.c    11 Apr 2005 23:12:25 -0000
>***************
>*** 721,726 ****
>--- 721,727 ----
>      {PG_JOHAB, "???"},
>  #endif
>
>+     {PG_UTF8, "UTF-8"},
>      {PG_UTF8, "UTF8"},
>      {PG_UTF8, "utf8"},
>
>
>
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