JDBC Default Encoding

Hi,
 In PGStream, i see the default encoding "US-ASCII" which is overridden once we are connected to the database. But, if an error comes while connecting to the database for example user name is not correct, US-ASCII is used to decode the Server Message which prints ??? instead of actual error message when the locale is other than english (in my case it was zh_TW.utf8). If i change the default encoding of PGStream to UTF8, it works fine. Is there any specific reason for the default encoding to be the US-ASCII?

--Altaf Malik

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