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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: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Chuck McDevitt <cmcdevitt@greenplum.com>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2009-11-17T18:51:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Well, it might be a good idea to provide at least some support in libpq. 
> Making each client do it from scratch seems a bit inefficient.

Encoding conversion seems far outside libpq's charter, and as for
"from scratch" there are other libraries for that.

			regards, tom lane