UTF8 encoding text files with BOM (Byte Order Mark) are commonly used in Windows, though BOM was designed for UTF16 text originally. However, psql cannot read such format even if we set client encoding to UTF8. Is it worth supporting those format in psql?
When psql opens a file with -f or \i, it checks first 3 bytes of the file. If they are BOM, discard the 3 bytes and change client encoding to UTF8 automatically. Is this change reasonable? Comments welcome. Regards, --- ITAGAKI Takahiro NTT Open Source Software Center -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
