Received: from localhost (postgresql.org [64.49.215.8]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03F85475CBC for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:43:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from brasileiro.net (slxwy.dorms.usu.edu [129.123.227.56]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C88F4759F2 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:43:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from roberto by brasileiro.net with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1855p5-0007UB-00; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 08:52:27 -0600 Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 08:52:27 -0600 From: Roberto Mello To: Tom Lane Cc: Tim Perdue , pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Foreign character struggles Message-ID: <20021025145226.GB28716@cc.usu.edu> References: <20021025083259.B29164@mail.perdue.net> <22964.1035556679@sss.pgh.pa.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <22964.1035556679@sss.pgh.pa.us> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-message-flag: Please consider using an e-mail program other than Outlook. It's insecure. X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS new-20020517 X-Archive-Number: 200210/358 X-Sequence-Number: 10075 On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 10:37:59AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > I think this is a locale issue, not a character set issue. You > definitely need --enable-locale, but I doubt you need either of the > above (unless you need to deal with Unicode or Far-Eastern languages). Where is the procedure for working with i18n'd characters described in the documentation? I'm looking for something that mentions the specifics of locale interaction and all that. I ask because the sort of question Tim asked is a recurrent one in a portuguese PostgreSQL mailing list I subscribe to. Thanks, -Roberto -- +----| Roberto Mello - http://www.brasileiro.net/ |------+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State University + + USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club - http://fslc.usu.edu/ +