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Change database encoding from UNICODE (alias) to UTF8 in INSTALL #10189

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Expand Up @@ -135,11 +135,16 @@ simple steps, which have to be done as the postgres system user (or
which ever is the database superuser):

$ createuser -P roundcube
$ createdb -O roundcube -E UNICODE roundcubemail
$ createdb -O roundcube -E UTF8 roundcubemail

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Please, target the master branch.


Note: in some system configurations you might need to add '-U postgres' to
createuser and createdb commands.

Note: most newer versions of PostgreSQL default to UTF8, albeit with a few

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I don't think this note is really needed, we don't have to explain ourselves. Let's keep it simple

exceptions (e.g., an Operating System sets the default for the "template1"
database to a non-Unicode encoding), which is why we're careful to
explicitly specify the UTF8 database encoding ("-E" command-line option).

Now you can run the Installer or configure the database access options in
'config/config.inc.php' and run: `bin/initdb.sh --dir=SQL`.

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