Re: UTF8 with BOM support in psql

On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 13:11 +0900, Itagaki Takahiro wrote:
> The attached patch replace BOM with while spaces, but it does not
> change client encoding automatically. I think we can always ignore
> client encoding at the replacement because SQL command cannot start
> with BOM sequence. If we don't ignore the sequence, execution of
> the script must fail with syntax error.

I feel that psql is the wrong place to fix this.  BOMs in UTF-8 should
be ignored everywhere, all the time.