er encoding number, or <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>DEFAULT</TT
>
        to use the default encoding (namely, the encoding of the
        template database). The character sets supported by the
        <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
> server are described in
        <A
HREF="multibyte.html#MULTIBYTE-CHARSET-SUPPORTED"
>Section 22.3.1</A
>. See below for
        additional restrictions.
       </P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>lc_collate</I
></TT
></DT
><DD
><P
>        Collation order (<TT
