Re: UTF8 with BOM support in psql

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> This is certainly a workaround, just like piping the file through a
> suitable sed expression would be, but conceptually, the client encoding
> is a property of the file and should therefore be marked in the file.

In a perfect world things would be like that, but the world is
imperfect.  When only one of the available encodings even pretends
to have a marking convention, and even that one convention is broken,
imagining that you can fix it is just a recipe for making things worse.

			regards, tom lane