diff --git a/postgresql/_dumps/setup.sql b/postgresql/_dumps/setup.sql
index b8dffd50d505fd4e00bd914bcb6c9c4694726f39..5b275a3ff74394dc1960ac0a88405e6084033cea 100644
--- a/postgresql/_dumps/setup.sql
+++ b/postgresql/_dumps/setup.sql
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 CREATE USER upperio WITH PASSWORD 'upperio';
 
-CREATE DATABASE upperio_tests;
+CREATE DATABASE upperio_tests ENCODING 'UTF-8' LC_COLLATE='en_US.UTF-8' LC_CTYPE='en_US.UTF-8' TEMPLATE template0;
 
 GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE upperio_tests TO upperio;