initdb: he_IL is not a valid backend encoding name

"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