Does initdb -e is working ? (Latest dev. snapshot)

Probably I miss something
I tried latest snapshot and notice some changes in configure.
Everything went smoothly on my Linux 2.2.14, glic 2.1.2 system.

One problem: I tried initdb -e koi8 and it doesn't works -
all databases I have are in SQL_ASCII encoding
Database | Owner | Encoding
-----------+----------+-----------
discovery | postgres | SQL_ASCII
template1 | postgres | SQL_ASCII
test | postgres | SQL_ASCII

createdb -E koi8 works as expected:
createdb -E koi8 aa
CREATE DATABASE
zen:~$ psql -l
List of databases
Database | Owner | Encoding
-----------+----------+-----------
aa | postgres | KOI8
discovery | postgres | SQL_ASCII
template1 | postgres | SQL_ASCII
test | postgres | SQL_ASCII

I found -e for initdb , -E for createdb options for specifying encoding a
little bit confused - why not just use one of them !

Is't possible to change encoding of database except dump/destroydb/createdb
cycle ? Is't worth to have pg_encoding to do this ?

Regards,

Oleg

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