Chapter 22. Localization
- Table of Contents
- 22.1. Locale Support
- 22.2. Collation Support
- 22.2.1. Concepts
- 22.2.2. Managing Collations
- 22.2.1. Concepts
- 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
- 22.3.2. Setting the Character Set
- 22.3.1. Supported Character Sets
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.