Re: Client encoding not the same as the db encoding

On 02/29/2012 07:50 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Adrian Klaver<adrian.klaver@gmail.com>  writes:
>> On Wednesday, February 29, 2012 6:47:21 am Clodoaldo Neto wrote:
>>> In 9.1.3 the client encoding is not defaulting to the db encoding:
>>> What am i missing? Regards, Clodoaldo
>
>> My guess this:
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/release-9-1.html
>> "E.4.3.10.1. libpq
>
>> Add a libpq connection option client_encoding which behaves like
>> he PGCLIENTENCODING environment variable (Heikki Linnakangas)
>> The value auto sets the client encoding based on the operating
>> system locale.
>> "
>
> No, probably more this (under "psql")

Well I was half way there:)
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/app-psql.html

"If at least one of standard input or standard output are a terminal,
then psql sets the client encoding to "auto", which will detect the
appropriate client encoding from the locale settings (LC_CTYPE
environment variable on Unix systems). If this doesn't work out as
expected, the client encoding can be overridden using the environment
variable PGCLIENTENCODING."

>
>     * Have psql set the client encoding from the operating system locale by default (Heikki Linnakangas)
>
>     This only happens if the PGCLIENTENCODING environment variable is not set.
>
> I think the idea was to try to match your terminal window's encoding
> automatically.
>
>             regards, tom lane


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