2 Chapter 23. Localization
10 23.1.3. Selecting Locales
11 23.1.4. Locale Providers
15 23.2. Collation Support
18 23.2.2. Managing Collations
19 23.2.3. ICU Custom Collations
21 23.3. Character Set Support
23 23.3.1. Supported Character Sets
24 23.3.2. Setting the Character Set
25 23.3.3. Automatic Character Set Conversion Between Server and
28 23.3.4. Available Character Set Conversions
29 23.3.5. Further Reading
31 This chapter describes the available localization features from the
32 point of view of the administrator. PostgreSQL supports two
33 localization facilities:
34 * Using the locale features of the operating system to provide
35 locale-specific collation order, number formatting, translated
36 messages, and other aspects. This is covered in Section 23.1 and
38 * Providing a number of different character sets to support storing
39 text in all kinds of languages, and providing character set
40 translation between client and server. This is covered in