Chapter 24. Localization

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## Chapter 24. Localization

**Table of Contents**

[24.1. Locale Support](locale.html)[24.1.1. Overview](locale.html#id-1.6.11.3.4)[24.1.2. Behavior](locale.html#id-1.6.11.3.5)[24.1.3. Problems](locale.html#id-1.6.11.3.6)[24.2. Collation Support](collation.html)[24.2.1. Concepts](collation.html#id-1.6.11.4.4)[24.2.2. Managing Collations](collation.html#COLLATION-MANAGING)[24.3. Character Set Support](multibyte.html)[24.3.1. Supported Character Sets](multibyte.html#MULTIBYTE-CHARSET-SUPPORTED)[24.3.2. Setting the Character Set](multibyte.html#id-1.6.11.5.6)[24.3.3. Automatic Character Set Conversion Between Server and Client](multibyte.html#id-1.6.11.5.7)[24.3.4. Available Character Set Conversions](multibyte.html#MULTIBYTE-CONVERSIONS-SUPPORTED)[24.3.5. Further Reading](multibyte.html#id-1.6.11.5.9)

 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 24.1](locale.html) and [Section 24.2](collation.html).

* 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 24.3](multibyte.html).

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