Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> (Hmm, actually it looks like pg_dumpall hasn't got a -E switch,
>>> which seems like an oversight.  So you need to fix your locale,
>>> or else use pg_dump directly.)
> 
>> IIRC, you can't set the windows console to be UTF8.
> 
> Ugh.  That seems to raise the priority of having a -E switch quite
> a lot.  I'm surprised no one has complained of this before.

Most people use pg_dump. I know I recommend everbody to use pg_dump to
dump the database, because you can use -Fc. Then just use pg_dumpall to
dump the globals, and they normally don't have any non-ascii in them.


> I think it should be possible to work around it by setting
> PGCLIENTENCODING in the environment, but I dunno how to do that
> on Windows.

That's a simple
set PGCLIENTENCODING=UTF8

//Magnus


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