Description of problem:

It appears when we create the foreman, gutterball and candlepin databases we might be using the default postgresql encoding for the db's vs explicitly forcing UTF8. This is causing issues during errata input: 

/opt/rh/ruby193/root/usr/share/ruby/rake/application.rb:63:in `run'
/opt/rh/ruby193/root/usr/bin/rake:32:in `<main>'
caused by: (ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid) PGError: ERROR:  character with byte sequence 0xe2 0x80 0x98 in encoding "UTF8" has no equivalent in encoding "LATIN1"
: UPDATE "katello_errata" SET "issued" = '2011-03-10', "severity" = '', "title" = 'strace bug fix update', "reboot_suggested" = 'f', "updated" = '2011-05-19', "description" = 'The strace program intercepts and records the system calls called and received
by a running process. It can print a record of each system call, its arguments
and its return value.
:::
/opt/rh/ruby193/root/usr/share/gems/gems/katello-2.2.0.66/lib/katello/tasks/reindex.rake:37:in `index_objects'
    ... skipped 19 lines
caused by: (PGError) ERROR:  character with byte sequence 0xe2 0x80 0x98 in encoding "UTF8" has no equivalent in encoding "LATIN1"
 
    ... skipped 47 lines
Tasks: TOP => katello:reindex
[ lo1-padm-sat-3 ] #
 
I have researched several reports from your knowledge database with errata_import failing on upgrade from 6.0.8 to 6.1 but none of them correspond with the error:
caused by: (PGError) ERROR:  character with byte sequence 0xe2 0x80 0x98 in encoding "UTF8" has no equivalent in encoding "LATIN1"
 
and it seems to be on the latest available packages. The Satellite 6.1 server cannot be used usefully at the moment as there is no errata!!!
 
Is this of assistance:
-bash-4.2$ psql  -l
                                       List of databases
    Name    |  Owner   | Encoding |     Collate     |      Ctype      |    Access privileges
------------+----------+----------+-----------------+-----------------+-------------------------
 candlepin  | postgres | LATIN1   | en_GB.ISO8859-1 | en_GB.ISO8859-1 | =T/postgres            +
            |          |          |                 |                 | postgres=CTc/postgres  +
            |          |          |                 |                 | candlepin=CTc/postgres
 foreman    | foreman  | LATIN1   | en_GB.ISO8859-1 | en_GB.ISO8859-1 | =T/foreman             +
            |          |          |                 |                 | foreman=CTc/foreman
 gutterball | postgres | LATIN1   | en_GB.ISO8859-1 | en_GB.ISO8859-1 | =T/postgres            +
            |          |          |                 |                 | postgres=CTc/postgres  +
            |          |          |                 |                 | gutterball=CTc/postgres
 postgres   | postgres | LATIN1   | en_GB.ISO8859-1 | en_GB.ISO8859-1 |
 template0  | postgres | LATIN1   | en_GB.ISO8859-1 | en_GB.ISO8859-1 | =c/postgres            +
            |          |          |                 |                 | postgres=CTc/postgres
 template1  | postgres | LATIN1   | en_GB.ISO8859-1 | en_GB.ISO8859-1 | =c/postgres            +
            |          |          |                 |                 | postgres=CTc/postgres

From the following I am not seeing an explicit UTF8 creation, 

https://github.com/theforeman/puppet-foreman/blob/master/manifests/database/postgresql.pp