Re: It is possible to add an option to save files without UTF-8 BOM sequence

Le 16/11/2010 21:31, Taras Kopets a écrit :
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
> <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>wrote:
>
>> That's not a limitation of wxWidgets. It's doable in 2/3 hours of work.
>> Not sure we really want to add a workaround for this. And actually, this
>> is not a bug in pgAdmin. psql and surely quite a lot of tools don't do
>> that write. In psql's specific case, I think it's already fixed.
>>
>> Anyway, as already stated, I'm not against adding such an option. It's
>> quite simple to add, but it is another option to add on an already
>> filled dialog.
>
>
> According to wiki - Unicode standard does not require or recommend BOM,
> further mentioning that BOM could possibly break stuff in Unix-like systems.
>

Perhaps, I don't know quite a lot about BOM.

> I don't see the problem with adding one checkbox to options page, if this
> option
> solves compatibility problem with main postgres tool (psql).
>

psql 9.0 knows how to handle this.

> If you look closer to option page there is even checkbox "Reset guru
> hints",
> which is much less important than checkbox "Let me run my files in psql".
>

Much less for you, right. Doesn't mean everyone has the same opinion.
And removing something is usually not appreciated.

> What do you think?
>

That I'm waiting for your patch :)

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