On Sep 25, 2011, at 9:58 PM, Itagaki Takahiro wrote: > I'd like to support UTF-8 text or csv files that has BOM (byte order mark) > in COPY FROM command. BOM will be automatically detected and ignored > if the file encoding is UTF-8. WIP patch attached.
By my reading of http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#bom5, I'd say +1 So I think what you propose makes sense. > I'm thinking about only COPY FROM for reads, but if someone wants to add > BOM in COPY TO, we might also support COPY TO WITH BOM for writes. I think it would have to be optional, since "some recipients of UTF-8 encoded data do not expect a BOM." Best, David -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
