Re: UTF8 with BOM support in psql - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: UTF8 with BOM support in psql
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Msg-id 1256119208.12996.1.camel@fsopti579.F-Secure.com
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In response to Re: UTF8 with BOM support in psql  (Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>)
Responses Re: UTF8 with BOM support in psql
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On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 13:11 +0900, Itagaki Takahiro wrote:
> The attached patch replace BOM with while spaces, but it does not
> change client encoding automatically. I think we can always ignore
> client encoding at the replacement because SQL command cannot start
> with BOM sequence. If we don't ignore the sequence, execution of
> the script must fail with syntax error.

I feel that psql is the wrong place to fix this.  BOMs in UTF-8 should
be ignored everywhere, all the time.



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