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doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml

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-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml,v 2.96 2010/02/03 17:25:05 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml,v 2.97 2010/02/28 02:19:47 momjian Exp $ -->
 
 <chapter id="charset">
  <title>Localization</>
@@ -68,8 +68,15 @@ initdb --locale=sv_SE
     in Sweden (<literal>SE</>).  Other possibilities might be
     <literal>en_US</> (U.S. English) and <literal>fr_CA</> (French
     Canadian).  If more than one character set can be used for a
-    locale then the specifications look like this:
-    <literal>cs_CZ.ISO8859-2</>. What locales are available on your 
+    locale then the specifications can take the form
+    <replaceable>language_territory.codeset</>.  For example,
+    <literal>fr_BE.UTF-8</> represents the French language (fr) as
+    spoken in Belgium (BE), with a <acronym>UTF-8</> character set
+    encoding.
+   </para>
+
+   <para>
+    What locales are available on your 
     system under what names depends on what was provided by the operating
     system vendor and what was installed.  On most Unix systems, the command
     <literal>locale -a</> will provide a list of available locales.