Re: Support UTF-8 files with BOM in COPY FROM - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Itagaki Takahiro
Subject Re: Support UTF-8 files with BOM in COPY FROM
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Msg-id CAJW2+qdsfRcLY1q62ikH0dJdb8ujhPb6bu6j-rtSm+AAVrqtWA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Support UTF-8 files with BOM in COPY FROM  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 20:12, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> I like it in general. But if we're looking at the BOM, shouldn't we
> also look and *reject* the file if it's a BOM for a non-UTF8 file? Say
> if the BOM claims it's UTF16?

-1 because we're depending on manual configuration for now.
It would be reasonable if we had used automatic detection of
character encoding, but we don't. In addition, some crazy
encoding might use BOM codes as a valid character.

-- 
Itagaki Takahiro


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