Re: UTF8 with BOM support in psql
Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>
From: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-10-20T06:18:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote: > Itagaki Takahiro wrote: > > When psql opens a file with -f or \i, it checks first 3 bytes of the > > file. If they are BOM, discard the 3 bytes and change client encoding > > to UTF8 automatically. > > Seems there is community support for accepting BOM: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-09/msg01625.php Thank yor for information. I read the thread that we discussed about BOM handling in *data types*. I agree the decision in the thead that we should not skip BOM characters, but we can handle BOM in a different way in the head of *files* for psql and COPY input. Regards, --- ITAGAKI Takahiro NTT Open Source Software Center