> ------- Original Message -------
> From: John DeSoi <desoi@pgedit.com>
> To: Charlie Clark <charlie@begeistert.org>
> Sent: 22/09/07, 20:30:45
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] Weird characters saved in SQL file
>
> 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):
Sounds like it - it does write them.
Under File->Options you can turn off UTF-8 mode. Try that to confirm what's happening.
Regards, Dave
