Re: About postgresql8.3.3 build in MS VS2005 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: About postgresql8.3.3 build in MS VS2005
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Msg-id 48F0D64F.1000002@hagander.net
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In response to Re: About postgresql8.3.3 build in MS VS2005  (iihero <iihero@gmail.com>)
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iihero wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> Thanks for your information. Very appreciated!
> When I convert the file as encoded as UTF-8, there will be no errors.
> For my understanding, if the file is encoded as UTF-8, the first 3 bytes
> will be "efbbbf".

No, this is not necessary. That's the BOM (Byte Order Mark), but it's
not mandatory. Many editors on Windows put it there, most (I think)
editors on other platforms don't.

> Besides this, ossp-uuid seems very hard to find a win32 build version.
> Is there comment int the wiki?
> I just find one in the mail list, which says that there is one at
> 
> http://winpg.jp/~saito/pg_work/OSSP_win32/

There has been a lot of issues with that one. I don't know if there has
been a release of the fixed version - I know Hiroshi Saito worked with
them to get the fix into their tree, just not if it's been released yet.

//Magnus


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