| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: UTF8 with BOM support in psql |
| Date: | 2009-10-20 05:58:58 |
| Message-ID: | 200910200558.n9K5wwM11713@momjian.us |
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Itagaki Takahiro wrote:
> UTF8 encoding text files with BOM (Byte Order Mark) are commonly
> used in Windows, though BOM was designed for UTF16 text originally.
> However, psql cannot read such format even if we set client encoding
> to UTF8. Is it worth supporting those format in psql?
>
> 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.
>
> Is this change reasonable? Comments welcome.
Seems there is community support for accepting BOM:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-09/msg01625.php
Should I add this as a TODO item?
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