pgaccess error message

 Hello,

 I recently compiled from source pg 7.2.1. Version information is

 gds=# select version();
                            version
 --------------------------------------------------------------
  PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 3.0.4

 All is well with the database proper and psql, and I have loaded several
 million records with no problems. My one problem relates to pgaccess. I
 have not previously tried to use it (I was on pg 6.5), so I wanted to see
 what it was like. When I try to open my db (local machine), I receive the
 following message:

 Error trying to connect to database 'gds' on host localhost

 PostgreSQL error message:Connection to database failed
 ERROR: Client encoding UNICODE is not supported

 That last bit is very strange. Everything is English; no locale or
 multibyte or such things. At this time, I have taken all defaults for the
 *.conf files, and the user is pg superuser.

 Help! Obviously not urgent, but now I'm curious.

 Thank you.

 Don