Re: UTF8 with BOM support in psql

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Chuck McDevitt <cmcdevitt(at)greenplum(dot)com>
Cc: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: UTF8 with BOM support in psql
Date: 2009-11-17 17:05:24
Message-ID: 1258477524.10724.26.camel@fsopti579.F-Secure.com
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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.

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