Docs: Note to use UTF8 in PostgreSQL #2096

doc/admin/installation/manual_smallscale.rst

@@ -51,7 +51,12 @@ Database
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 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