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

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 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.
>
>   

Doesn't the nul byte problem make that seriously hard?

cheers

andrew