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Chapter 22. Localization

Table of Contents
22.1. Locale Support
22.1.1. Overview
22.1.2. Behavior
22.1.3. Problems
22.2. Collation Support
22.2.1. Concepts
22.2.2. Managing Collations
22.3. Character Set Support
22.3.1. Supported Character Sets
22.3.2. Setting the Character Set
22.3.3. Automatic Character Set Conversion Between Server and Client
22.3.4. Further Reading

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

  • Using the locale features of the operating system to provide locale-specific collation order, number formatting, translated messages, and other aspects. This is covered in Section 22.1 and Section 22.2.

  • Providing a number of different character sets to support storing text in all kinds of languages, and providing character set translation between client and server. This is covered in Section 22.3.

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