O driver JDBC Postgres tem uma maneira de definir o client_encoding para se conectar ao banco de dados?

private List<String[]> getParametersForStartup(String user, String database, Properties info) {
  List<String[]> paramList = new ArrayList<String[]>();
  paramList.add(new String[]{"user", user});
  paramList.add(new String[]{"database", database});
  paramList.add(new String[]{"client_encoding", "UTF8"});
  paramList.add(new String[]{"DateStyle", "ISO"});
  [...]

public void receiveParameterStatus() throws IOException, SQLException {
  // ParameterStatus
  pgStream.receiveInteger4(); // MESSAGE SIZE
  String name = pgStream.receiveString();
  String value = pgStream.receiveString();

  [...]

  if (name.equals("client_encoding")) {
    if (allowEncodingChanges) {
      if (!value.equalsIgnoreCase("UTF8") && !value.equalsIgnoreCase("UTF-8")) {
        LOGGER.log(Level.FINE,
            "pgjdbc expects client_encoding to be UTF8 for proper operation. Actual encoding is {0}",
            value);
      }
      pgStream.setEncoding(Encoding.getDatabaseEncoding(value));
    } else if (!value.equalsIgnoreCase("UTF8") && !value.equalsIgnoreCase("UTF-8")) {
      close(); // we're screwed now; we can't trust any subsequent string.
      throw new PSQLException(GT.tr(
          "The server''s client_encoding parameter was changed to {0}. The JDBC driver requires client_encoding to be UTF8 for correct operation.",
          value), PSQLState.CONNECTION_FAILURE);

    }
  }