I installed postgresql by pacman (i'm using an ArchLinux Distr) the default encoding of template1 is SQL_ASCII, i want to change this one with UTF8 encoding i try to use ALTER DATABASE but this statemanent hasn't the clause encoding (while the CREATE DATABASE has it) so i can't modify the template1 db by this one. how can i do it? many thanks nando -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general