From: Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
To: Ian Barwick <barwick@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] psql on FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p2 and greek (iso8859-7) chars
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:59:10 +0200 (EET)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211211650110.22779-100000@matrix.gatewaynet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200211211511.26369.barwick@gmx.net>
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Ian Barwick wrote:
> On Thursday 21 November 2002 12:38, Achilleus Mantzios wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I noticed that psql on FreeBSD (i checked also fbsd 4.5 with pgsql port
> > installed)
> > does not accept 8bit iso8859-* chars > 128 (where the greek chars are).
> >
> > In linux that works ok, and i can update/insert/select values
> > using greek strings.
> >
> > I know it must be a fbsd/locale issue
>
> It is.
Thats right.
Just a
setenv LANG el_GR.ISO8859-7
did the trick.
However i noticed that ANY LANG value whould do.
libc (or glibc in linux) just need LANG not to be empty.
>
> HTH
>
> Ian Barwick
> barwick@gmx.net
>
>
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Achilleus Mantzios
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