Install: Japanese: What options needed?

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Hi,

of the compile options needed to enable Japanese language support (being
able to put japanese input into the DB and do operations on it. I have a
english Linux system and want to do admin stuff in english)

--enable-locale

I am assuming that I don't want this since I want to do admin stuff in
english. Am I right?

My Japanised linux box has been working well without this option for sorting
, seaching or other operations about tables that have Japanese text data,
however the manual descrive it affects sveral environments related programing
as well as admin stuffs.

http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?charset.html#LOCALE

--enable-multibyte

I assume I need this and should preferably set it to EUC-JP? What is the
difference between this compile-time option and "initdb -E EUC_JP"?

Is doing "./configure --enable-multibyte=EUC_JP" all I need in order to
be able to put japanese into my DB and then do things like sorting?

It makes using multiple-byte charactors in regular expressions, LIKE and
some other features possible as you may have know. please see the below
URL for detail.

http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?multibyte.html

I am not sure what you meant by 'sorting Japanese text'.
It works like a telephone directory as long as sorted data is all in
Hiragana or Katakana.

I hope it will work for you.

Hiroki

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