Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Does "console code page" issue apply to MinGW, Cygwin builds?

Magnus Hagander

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Does "console code page" issue apply to

Reini Urban

From:	Magnus Hagander
Subject:	Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Does "console code page" issue apply to MinGW, Cygwin builds?
Date:	Mon, 27 Dec 2004 09:48:22 +0100

> At the bottom of
> http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/install-win32.html
> there is some info about having to set the correct console
> code page for psql. Does this apply to the MinGW and/or
> Cygwin builds, or is it only relevant for Visual C++ and
> Borland C++ builds? If the former, it's in the wrong place.
> I am not sure what the right place is though.

It definitly applies to the MinGW build. Not sure about Cygwin.

//Magnus

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From:	Reini Urban
Subject:	Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Does "console code page" issue apply to
Date:	Mon, 27 Dec 2004 18:21:53 +0100

Magnus Hagander schrieb:
>>At the bottom of
>>http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/install-win32.html
>>there is some info about having to set the correct console
>>code page for psql. Does this apply to the MinGW and/or
>>Cygwin builds, or is it only relevant for Visual C++ and
>>Borland C++ builds? If the former, it's in the wrong place.
>>I am not sure what the right place is though.
>
>
> It definitly applies to the MinGW build. Not sure about Cygwin.

Cygwin ditto (see the note at the end), but previous cygwin builds (up
to 7.4.5 if I remember correctly) had only limited codepage support.

If unsupported by your cygwin build it will complain on initdb and/or
psql otherwise.
--
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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