From cf202913009bf21767a54520f89b393325f30a8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: shackrat <srwhite@me.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 00:55:42 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md

Added ENCODING 'UTF8'; in the CREATE DATABASE statement for new installs of Postgres which may default to use ascii as the character set.
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 README.md | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c04d4f6..4afe9e6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -102,9 +102,9 @@ git clone https://github.com/qvarforth/trackdirect
 
 #### Set up database
 
-Set up the database (connect to database using: "sudo -u postgres psql"). You need to replace "my_username".
+Set up the database (connect to database using: "sudo -u postgres psql"). You need to replace "my_username".  Note that APRS using UTF-8 encoding so it may be necessary to specify as shown.
 ```
-CREATE DATABASE trackdirect;
+CREATE DATABASE trackdirect ENCODING 'UTF8';
 
 CREATE USER my_username WITH PASSWORD 'foobar';
 ALTER ROLE my_username WITH SUPERUSER;
-- 
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