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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml
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--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml
@@ -209,8 +209,9 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
<para>
Selects the encoding of the template databases. This will also
be the default encoding of any database you create later,
- unless you override it then. The default is derived from the locale, or
- <literal>SQL_ASCII</literal> if that does not work. The character sets supported by
+ unless you override it then. The default is derived from the locale,
+ if the libc locale provider is used, or <literal>UTF8</literal> if the
+ ICU locale provider is used. The character sets supported by
the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> server are described
in <xref linkend="multibyte-charset-supported"/>.
</para>