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author | Bruce Momjian | 2008-07-15 01:35:23 +0000 |
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committer | Bruce Momjian | 2008-07-15 01:35:23 +0000 |
commit | da0a9f1d5a24868742e34cafda073d1992339715 (patch) | |
tree | 2bccedf3c86eea4c780d6728d0aaf1c9765a514a /doc/src | |
parent | bf523f97ca8f0286c2e027caa85edcdb8558eda2 (diff) |
Clarify that locale names on Windows are more verbose.
Report from Martin Saschek
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml index 43d2529a195..597ce6d5033 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml,v 2.85 2008/03/06 15:37:56 momjian Exp $ --> +<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml,v 2.86 2008/07/15 01:35:23 momjian Exp $ --> <chapter id="charset"> <title>Localization</> @@ -65,15 +65,17 @@ initdb --locale=sv_SE </para> <para> - This example sets the locale to Swedish (<literal>sv</>) as spoken + This example for Unix systems sets the locale to Swedish + (<literal>sv</>) as spoken in Sweden (<literal>SE</>). Other possibilities might be <literal>en_US</> (U.S. English) and <literal>fr_CA</> (French Canadian). If more than one character set can be useful for a locale then the specifications look like this: <literal>cs_CZ.ISO8859-2</>. What locales are available under what names on your system depends on what was provided by the operating - system vendor and what was installed. (On most systems, the command - <literal>locale -a</> will provide a list of available locales.) + system vendor and what was installed. On most Unix systems, the command + <literal>locale -a</> will provide a list of available locales. + Windows uses more verbose names, such as <literal>German_Germany</>. </para> <para> |