This looks like what you are looking for.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/app-initdb.html
The character set encoding can be set separately for a database when it is created. initdb determines the encoding for
thetemplate1 database, which will serve as the default for all other databases. To alter the default encoding use the
--encodingoption. More details can be found in Section 21.2.
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From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Geoffrey
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 11:21 AM
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Subject: [ADMIN] How is the default encoding determined
I recently was bitten by having two servers where the database encoding
was different. When I do an 'initdb' how does it determine the 'default'
encoding?
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