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Re: UTF8 with BOM support in psql

Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>

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From: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-11-18T04:35:18Z
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:

> Itagaki Takahiro wrote:
> > I don't want user to check the encoding of scripts before executing --
> > it is far from fail-safe.
> 
> That's what we require in all other cases. Why should UTF8 be special? 

No. I didn't think about UTF-8 nor BOM in that point.
I assumed we are discussing the following line:

> > I'd say we can always throw an error when we find queries that contain
> > multi-byte characters if no prior encoding declaration.

Regards,
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ITAGAKI Takahiro
NTT Open Source Software Center