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</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><literal>\encoding</literal> [ <replaceable class="parameter">encoding</replaceable> ]</term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Sets the client encoding, if you are using multibyte encodings.
+ Without an argument, this command shows the current encoding.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+
<varlistentry>
<term><literal>\f</literal> [ <replaceable class="parameter">string</replaceable> ]</term>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><envar>ENCODING</envar></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The current client multibyte encoding. If you are not set up to use
+ multibyte characters, this variable will always contain
+ <quote>SQL_ASCII</quote>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term><envar>HISTCONTROL</envar></term>
<listitem>