Logical Replication and Character encoding

Hi hackers,

I tried a committed Logical Replication environment. I found that replication between databases of different encodings did not convert encodings in character type columns. Is this behavior correct?

I expected that the character 0xe6bca2 (UTF-8) would be converted to the same character 0xb4c1 (EUC_JP). The example below replicates from the encoding UTF-8 database to the encoding EUC_JP database. You can see that the character 0xe6bca2 (UTF-8) is stored intact in the SUBSCRIPTION side database.

- PUBLICATION side (encode=UTF-8)
postgres=> \l postgres
List of databases
Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access privileges
----------+----------+----------+---------+-------+-------------------
postgres | postgres | UTF8 | C | C |
(1 row)

postgres=> CREATE TABLE encode1(col1 NUMERIC PRIMARY KEY, col2 VARCHAR(10)) ;
CREATE TABLE
postgres=> CREATE PUBLICATION pub1 FOR TABLE encode1 ;
CREATE PUBLICATION
postgres=> INSERT INTO encode1 VALUES (1, '漢') ; -- UTF-8 Character 0xe6bca2
INSERT 0 1

- SUBSCRIPTION side (encode=EUC_JP)
postgres=> \l postgres
List of databases
Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access privileges
----------+----------+----------+---------+-------+-------------------
postgres | postgres | EUC_JP | C | C |
(1 row)

postgres=> CREATE TABLE encode1(col1 NUMERIC PRIMARY KEY, col2 VARCHAR(10)) ;
CREATE TABLE
postgres=# CREATE SUBSCRIPTION sub1 CONNECTION 'dbname=postgres host=localhost port=5432' PUBLICATION pub1 ;
NOTICE: created replication slot "sub1" on publisher
CREATE SUBSCRIPTION
postgres=# SELECT * FROM encode1 ;
ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "EUC_JP": 0xa2
postgres=# SELECT heap_page_items(get_raw_page('encode1', 0)) ;
heap_page_items
-------------------------------------------------------------------
(1,8152,1,33,565,0,0,"(0,1)",2,2306,24,,,"\\x0b0080010009e6bca2") <- stored UTF-8 char 0xe6bca2
(1 row)

Snapshot:
https://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/snapshot/dev/postgresql-snapshot.tar.gz 2017-01-31 00:29:07
Operating System:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Update 2 (x86-64)

Regards.