postgresql package and error message translations

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Wed May 14 19:02:00 GMT 2008


Dmitry Teslenko wrote:
> Hello!
> I use postgresql tools such as psql, pg_dump, etc.
> If I invoke them as "/bin/psql" they product error (and probably other) messages
> in english; but if I invoke them as "psql" or "/usr/bin/psql" they
> produce messages
> in my native language (russian) in koi8-r encoding and windows' default encoding
> for text in my native language is cp1251 (or windows-1251). That means I get
> garbage in terminal.
> I've chosen unix file format when installing cygwin and problem
> described can be
> observed with both "current" and "experimental" versions of cygwin packages.
> I have no interest in error messages in my native language so is there way
> to turn them off once and for all?

Sounds to me like you have a non-Cygwin version of 'psql' somewhere.  Look
around.  If you don't have a non-Cygwin version and want to follow-up with
your problem on this list, please read and follow the problem reporting
guidelines outlined here:

<http://cygwin.com/problems.html>

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