On Wednesday 01 March 2006 13:33, John Kodis wrote: > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:08:43AM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > It looks like you have turned off utf-8, which will create a > > database that is incompatible with the Win32 consoles, which expect > > all Bacula database information to be in utf-8 format (Unicode). > > A few weeks ago I mentioned another problem that this same character > set mismatch caused for me (see "[Bacula-devel] A Pair of Postgres > Issues", Jan 14). There I suggest the use of the --encoding option > when creating the database tables as a work-around for the problems > that I encountered. > > Given that the UTF-8 character set is a requirement for Bacula, it > seems like it would be a good idea to force this by adding "--encoding > utf-8" to the Postgres database creation script, and whatever the > equivalent is to the scripts for the other databases.
I'm a bit reluctant to force a specific encoding because I'm not really sure what the consequences might be. For example, suppose the administrator has set some other encoding, what happens? I can say that the default installation of PostgreSQL on FC4 works perfectly fine. I believe that this issue is documented. If the PostgreSQL gurus say that there would be no downside to making this change, I have no objection ... > > -- John Kodis. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live > webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding > territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
