diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_database.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_database.sgml
index cf0d53b301..48386a29f9 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_database.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_database.sgml
@@ -284,17 +284,33 @@ CREATE DATABASE sales OWNER salesapp TABLESPACE salesspace;
- To create a database music> which supports the ISO-8859-1
- character set:
-
+ To create a database music> with a different locale:
-CREATE DATABASE music ENCODING 'LATIN1' TEMPLATE template0;
+CREATE DATABASE music
+ LC_COLLATE 'sv_SE.utf8' LC_CTYPE 'sv_SE.utf8'
+ TEMPLATE template0;
+ In this example, the TEMPLATE template0> clause is required if
+ the specified locale is different from the one in template1>.
+ (If it is not, then specifying the locale explicitly is redundant.)
+
- In this example, the TEMPLATE template0> clause would only
- be required if template1>'s encoding is not ISO-8859-1.
- Note that changing encoding might require selecting new
- LC_COLLATE> and LC_CTYPE> settings as well.
+
+ To create a database music2> with a different locale and a
+ different character set encoding:
+
+CREATE DATABASE music2
+ LC_COLLATE 'sv_SE.iso885915' LC_CTYPE 'sv_SE.iso885915'
+ ENCODING LATIN9
+ TEMPLATE template0;
+
+ The specified locale and encoding settings must match, or an error will be
+ reported.
+
+
+
+ Note that locale names are specific to the operating system, so that the
+ above commands might not work in the same way everywhere.