Dear friends,

Recently, several pgAdmin3 users complained about missing accentuated 
characters. The problems mostly came from the ASCII database encoding, which 
provides arbitrary storage of accentuated characters.

During installation of a Debian station, I noticed that the Debian 
initialisation script asked the user to define a default database encoding.

This reduces the risk for choosing an ASCIII database. Are there plans to make 
such an initialisation script default in PostgreSQL? I was not able to read 
discussions about the InitDB script. Maybe such a solution is on the way...

Maybe the script could check the locale and propose an appropriate database 
encoding.

Best regards,
Jean-Michel



Sun, 16 Nov 2003 12:03:02 +0100
Jean-Michel POURE <jm@poure.com>
Defaut database encoding