When I install the Kubuntu (13.04) postgresql (9.1) packages, the default template1 encoding turns out to be ASCII, which is not really what I want. My OS locale command reveals everything to be en_US.UTF-8, except for LC_ALL, which is left open.
I am guessing that my best bet is to change the locale settings of my OS in order to get postgresql server to use a UTF-8 locale setting from the system. But which setting should I change?
I did run pg_dropcluster, pg_createcluster (setting locale to C.UTF8) - and that seemed to work, except that I could not thereafter make remote connections (despite resetting the hba and postgres.conf files as they should be).