diff --git a/debian/amue-authentic2.config b/debian/amue-authentic2.config
index f4a60e3..6a4bbc5 100644
--- a/debian/amue-authentic2.config
+++ b/debian/amue-authentic2.config
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 # source dbconfig-common shell library, and call the hook function
 if [ -f /usr/share/dbconfig-common/dpkg/config.pgsql ]; then
 	. /usr/share/dbconfig-common/dpkg/config.pgsql 
-  dbc_pgsql_createdb_encoding="UTF8"
 	dbc_go amue-authentic2 $@
 fi
 
diff --git a/debian/amue-authentic2.postinst b/debian/amue-authentic2.postinst
index 3f3cf9d..26613cf 100644
--- a/debian/amue-authentic2.postinst
+++ b/debian/amue-authentic2.postinst
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ esac
 # source dbconfig-common shell library, and call the hook function
 if [ -f /usr/share/dbconfig-common/dpkg/postinst.pgsql ]; then
 	. /usr/share/dbconfig-common/dpkg/postinst.pgsql 
+  dbc_pgsql_createdb_encoding="UTF8"
 	dbc_generate_include=template:/etc/amue-authentic2/db.conf
 	dbc_generate_include_args="-o template_infile=/usr/share/amue-authentic2/templates/db.conf -U"
 	dbc_generate_include_owner="amue-authentic2"