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Chapter 21. Localization

Table of Contents

21.1. Locale Support

21.1.1. Overview
21.1.2. Behavior
21.1.3. Problems

21.2. Character Set Support

21.2.1. Supported Character Sets
21.2.2. Setting the Character Set
21.2.3. Automatic Character Set Conversion Between Server and Client
21.2.4. Further Reading

This chapter describes the available localization features from the point of view of the administrator. PostgreSQL supports localization with two approaches:

Using the locale features of the operating system to provide locale-specific collation order, number formatting, translated messages, and other aspects.
Providing a number of different character sets defined in the PostgreSQL server, including multiple-byte character sets, to support storing text in all kinds of languages, and providing character set translation between client and server.

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