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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: Chuck McDevitt <cmcdevitt@greenplum.com>
Cc: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2009-11-17T17:05:24Z
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On tis, 2009-11-17 at 00:59 -0800, Chuck McDevitt wrote:
> Or is there a plan to read and convert the UTF-16 or UTF-32 to UTF-8,
> so psql and PostgreSQL understand it?
> (BTW, that would actually be nice on Windows, where UTF-16 is common).

Well, someone could implement UTF-16 or UTF-whatever as client encoding.
But I have not heard of any concrete proposals about that.