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Re: Please change default characterset for database cluster



On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 09:32:43PM -0400, Carlos Moreno wrote:
> Oh, and BTW, welcome to version 8 of PostgreSQL ... The default
> encoding for initdb is ..... Ta-daaaa!!! Unicode !!!

No, it isn't.  If you get UTF8 (formerly UNICODE) as a default then
it's because initdb is picking it up from your environment.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/app-initdb.html

"The default is derived from the locale, or SQL_ASCII if that does not work."

-- 
Michael Fuhr



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