Hi, I set up my postgres 9.0 install 6 months ago and generally everything is fine but a recent data load with an e acute character failed which an unsupported message which surprised me as we're using UTF-8. However, i can now see that the listing for the database set up show a restriction under LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE to the UK which would explain the blocking of this character. Oddly, this is set even if i only specify UTF-8 which i guess means that it is set against the template. I can only assume that i selected this option on install but have since forgotten. CREATE DATABASE testing WITH OWNER = postgres ENCODING = 'UTF8' TABLESPACE = pg_default LC_COLLATE = 'English_United Kingdom.1252' LC_CTYPE = 'English_United Kingdom.1252' CONNECTION LIMIT = -1; Is there any way that i can change this, preferably against the template. If i try creating a new database by right clicking at the top of the database tree in pgAdmin i do note that i also have the options of "C" or "POSIX" but have read elsewhere that these are even more restrictive. Any ideas - hoping to avoid a complete re-install! Thanks in advance Andy -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/encoding-and-LC-COLLATE-tp4990415p4990415.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general