4.2.3 Message Language and Encoding System Used by Applications Settings

If the .NET Data Provider is used, it will automatically set the encoding system on the client to UTF-8, so there is no need to configure this.

See

Refer to "Automatic Character Set Conversion Between Server and Client" in "Server Administration" in the PostgreSQL Documentation for information on encoding systems.

Language settings

You must match the language settings for the application runtime environment with the message locale settings of the database server.

Set language using the "System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture" method.

Example

Code example for changing the locale in a C# application

System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = 
	System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en");