> The code would probably be pretty trivial, *if* we had consensus on > what the behavior ought to be. I'm not sure if we do. People who > only use Unicode would probably like it if BOMs were unconditionally > swallowed, whether or not psql thinks the client_encoding is UTF8. > (And I seem to recall somebody even proposing that finding a BOM > be cause to switch the client_encoding to UTF8.)
This is a bad idea. ISO 8859-1 uses 0xfe and 0xff (BOM) for some characters. Best regards, -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
