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initdb: he_IL is not a valid backend encoding name

From
"Ben-Nes Michael"
Date:
Hi All
 
any one has idea why i cant run
 
initdb -D testing_locale -E hebrew testing_locale/
initdb: hebrew is not a valid backend encoding name
 
in the locale i do have hebrew / he_IL
RH7.2
 
Thanks

Re: initdb: he_IL is not a valid backend encoding name

From
Tom Lane
Date:
"Ben-Nes Michael" <miki@canaan.co.il> writes:
> any one has idea why i cant run
> initdb -D testing_locale -E hebrew testing_locale/
> initdb: hebrew is not a valid backend encoding name

> in the locale i do have hebrew / he_IL

Locale and encoding are not at all the same thing.

I don't know offhand which character set you need to support Hebrew.
Unicode would work, but maybe there's an ISO8859 set that will do.

            regards, tom lane