Itagaki Takahiro wrote: > 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.
Seems there is community support for accepting BOM: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-09/msg01625.php Should I add this as a TODO item? -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers