rake db:create encoding error with postgresql

Question

I\'m importing an existing rails project that I was working on into my new arch linux system, I already installed all gems and postgresql correctly, but I having some issues whe

Answer 1

You can change postgres template1 to be UTF by doing the following as posted here:

UPDATE pg_database SET datistemplate = FALSE WHERE datname = 'template1';
DROP DATABASE template1;
CREATE DATABASE template1 WITH TEMPLATE = template0 ENCODING = 'UNICODE';
UPDATE pg_database SET datistemplate = TRUE WHERE datname = 'template1';
\c template1
VACUUM FREEZE;
UPDATE pg_database SET datallowconn = FALSE WHERE datname = 'template1';