Re: [GENERAL] invalid byte sequence ?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] invalid byte sequence ?
Date: 2006-08-25 18:53:59
Message-ID: 20060825185359.GN14622@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> > And as a counter-example: pg_dump should absolutly not use the client
> > locale, it should always dump as the same encoding as the server...
>
> Sure, but pg_dump should set that explicitly. I'm prepared to believe
> that looking at the locale is sane for all normal clients.

What are "normal clients"? I would think that programs in PHP or Perl
have their own idea of the correct encoding (JDBC already has one).

> It might be worth providing a way to set the client_encoding through a
> PQconnectdb connection-string keyword, just in case the override-via-
> PGCLIENTENCODING dodge doesn't suit someone. The priority order
> would presumably be connection string, then PGCLIENTENCODING, then
> locale.

This sounds like a good idea anyway...

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