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Clarify that locale names on Windows are more verbose.
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doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml

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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml,v 2.85 2008/03/06 15:37:56 momjian Exp $ -->
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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml,v 2.86 2008/07/15 01:35:23 momjian Exp $ -->
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<chapter id="charset">
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<title>Localization</>
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This example sets the locale to Swedish (<literal>sv</>) as spoken
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This example for Unix systems sets the locale to Swedish
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(<literal>sv</>) as spoken
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in Sweden (<literal>SE</>). Other possibilities might be
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<literal>en_US</> (U.S. English) and <literal>fr_CA</> (French
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Canadian). If more than one character set can be useful for a
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locale then the specifications look like this:
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<literal>cs_CZ.ISO8859-2</>. What locales are available under what
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names on your system depends on what was provided by the operating
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system vendor and what was installed. (On most systems, the command
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<literal>locale -a</> will provide a list of available locales.)
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system vendor and what was installed. On most Unix systems, the command
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<literal>locale -a</> will provide a list of available locales.
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Windows uses more verbose names, such as <literal>German_Germany</>.
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