| From: | John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com> |
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| To: | Charlie Clark <charlie(at)begeistert(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Scott Sturgeon <sturgeon(at)nettwerk(dot)com>, pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Weird characters saved in SQL file |
| Date: | 2007-09-22 19:30:45 |
| Message-ID: | 8CB9CE75-A603-4FF3-9498-1F2C2F0F4B42@pgedit.com |
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On Sep 22, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Charlie Clark wrote:
> <EF><BB><BF> to be precise. Certainly confuses the shell, less does
> not recognise the file as a text file. I don't know whether this a
> cookie which associates the file with pgAdmin but I don't really
> think it's a bug.
I think what you are seeing is a unicode byte order mark (BOM):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark
I don't know what encoding pgAdmin is using, but if it is UTF-8 then
there is probably no reason to have it. Or at least there needs to be
preference to leave it out.
John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL
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