Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> writes:
> hmm... I think I might have made a false assumption that
> the locale string would contain the character encoding.

You certainly cannot assume that. Would that it were so easy to find
out the character set for a locale :-(.

There's some code in initdb that you might emulate, though I can't say
that I trust it a whole lot.

regards, tom lane

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