character encoding of the postgres database

From: Sandeep Gupta <gupta(dot)sandeep(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: character encoding of the postgres database
Date: 2017-05-10 15:48:59
Message-ID: CAAywg7u-Pi3D1TUsSsyHEQcZ6bAT9KALxVKE5qECRQsnLy3X6A@mail.gmail.com
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Currently, the postgres database by has SQL_ASCII encoding.

psql -p 5771 postgres -l
List of databases
Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access privileges
-----------+---------+-----------+---------+-------+---------------------
postgres | sandeep | SQL_ASCII | C | C |
template0 | sandeep | SQL_ASCII | C | C | =c/sandeep +
| | | | | sandeep=CTc/sandeep
template1 | sandeep | SQL_ASCII | C | C | =c/sandeep +
| | | | | sandeep=CTc/sandeep
(3 rows)

Is it possible to start the postgres database with UTF-8 encoding, instead
of modifying it later.

Thanks
sandeep

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