Dear Peter, I'm very sorry I didn't response for your email quickly. I commented out locales in postmaster.conf and executed
createdb -E EUC_JP mydb; After this I can handle Japanese. PostgreSQL7.2 and 7.3 work well both on Linux8.0 and WidowsXPsp1+Cygwin1.3.17 using Japanese Kanji characters. Thank you for your help. Tamo. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Eisentraut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tamotsu Ebina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 8:52 AM Subject: Re: [BUGS] Can't start postmaster on Cygwin with local 'ja_JP.EUC > Tamotsu Ebina writes: > > > ebina@HAYAMA02 /usr/local/pgsql/postgresql-7.3rc1 > > $ FATAL: invalid value for option 'LC_MESSAGES': 'ja_JP.EUC' > > Set LC_MESSAGES to something that your system supports. (Since Cygwin > doesn't have locale support anyway, you might as well unset the locale > environment variables.) > > -- > Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly