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Re: UTF8 with BOM support in psql

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-10-24T21:33:06Z
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On ons, 2009-10-21 at 13:11 +0900, Itagaki Takahiro wrote:
> So, we should always ignore BOM sequence
> at the file head no matter what client encoding is used.

I think we can't do that.  That byte sequence might be valid user data
in other encodings.