From a1cc17094d2060336b7fa29d2d91deb7441740eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fabian <11352551+fabm3n@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2021 13:57:30 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Docs: Note to use UTF8 in PostgreSQL #2096 (#2103)

* Docs: Note to use UTF8 in PostgreSQL #2096

* Docs:  Same like 288f85b but for Docker docs
---
 doc/admin/installation/docker_smallscale.rst | 7 ++++++-
 doc/admin/installation/manual_smallscale.rst | 7 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/admin/installation/docker_smallscale.rst b/doc/admin/installation/docker_smallscale.rst
index 3c7ea6797..acd402948 100644
--- a/doc/admin/installation/docker_smallscale.rst
+++ b/doc/admin/installation/docker_smallscale.rst
@@ -58,7 +58,12 @@ Database
 --------
 
 Next, we need a database and a database user. We can create these with any kind of database managing tool or directly on
-our database's shell. For PostgreSQL, we would do::
+our database's shell. Please make sure that UTF8 is used as encoding for the best compatibility. You can check this with
+the following command::
+
+    # sudo -u postgres psql -c 'SHOW SERVER_ENCODING'
+
+For PostgreSQL database creation, we would do::
 
     # sudo -u postgres createuser -P pretix
     # sudo -u postgres createdb -O pretix pretix
diff --git a/doc/admin/installation/manual_smallscale.rst b/doc/admin/installation/manual_smallscale.rst
index 77b18bf57..54b07bb77 100644
--- a/doc/admin/installation/manual_smallscale.rst
+++ b/doc/admin/installation/manual_smallscale.rst
@@ -51,7 +51,12 @@ Database
 --------
 
 Having the database server installed, we still need a database and a database user. We can create these with any kind
-of database managing tool or directly on our database's shell. For PostgreSQL, we would do::
+of database managing tool or directly on our database's shell. Please make sure that UTF8 is used as encoding for the
+best compatibility. You can check this with the following command::
+
+    # sudo -u postgres psql -c 'SHOW SERVER_ENCODING'
+
+For PostgreSQL database creation, we would do::
 
     # sudo -u postgres createuser pretix
     # sudo -u postgres createdb -O pretix pretix