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Re: UTF8 with BOM support in psql

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Chuck McDevitt <cmcdevitt@greenplum.com>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2009-11-17T17:14:41Z
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On tis, 2009-11-17 at 00:59 -0800, Chuck McDevitt wrote:
>   
>> Or is there a plan to read and convert the UTF-16 or UTF-32 to UTF-8,
>> so psql and PostgreSQL understand it?
>> (BTW, that would actually be nice on Windows, where UTF-16 is common).
>>     
>
> Well, someone could implement UTF-16 or UTF-whatever as client encoding.
> But I have not heard of any concrete proposals about that.
>
>   

Doesn't the nul byte problem make that seriously hard?

cheers

andrew