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Re: UTF8 with BOM support in psql

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-11-17T00:37:35Z
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Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp> writes:
> Please remember \encoding or SET client_encoding appear
> *after* BOM at beginning of file. I'll agree if the condition is 
> "Eat BOM at beginning of file and <<set client encoding to UTF-8>>",

As has been stated multiple times, that will not get accepted,
because it will *break* files in other encodings that chance to
match the BOM pattern.

			regards, tom lane