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Install documentation does not set postgresql database encoding

Created by: lloeki

The following is found in the installation documentation, section database.

CREATE DATABASE gitlabhq_production OWNER git;

This is probably what's expected instead:

CREATE DATABASE gitlabhq_production OWNER git ENCODING utf8;

This poses no problem for english-speaking users and is probably why it easily went under the radar.

This is very troublesome as following documentation such as in doc/update/mysql_to_postgresql.md will create an utf8 dump that will not be restored correctly (this just happened).