overwrite the encoding of a database

Hello,

I have an old PostgreSQL Database which was created with encoding =
SQL_ASCII. That is an old sin of mine; 9years ago I did not know better.

Now I know better than to use SQL_ASCII.

On the bright side: I am totally sure that the TEXT within that database is
in WIN1252 / CP1252 encoding.

Is there any way to overwrite the encoding-information? something like
"udpate <specialsystemcatalog> set pg_encodingcol='xxx' where
databasename='oldsin';

Best wishes,

Harald

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