Re: BUG #5398: psql gives syntax error on .sql files with UTF-8 BOM

"Peter Jukel" <pjukel@triplehash.com> wrote:

> PostgreSQL version: 8.4
>
> The psql command gives syntax errors when fed .sql files that are saved with
> encoding "UTF-8" and contain a BOM (byte order marker). When the same file
> is saved using the encoding "UTF-8, no BOM", the syntax error is removed.

It will be improved in 9.0, the next release.
Ignore leading UTF-8-encoded Unicode byte-order marker in psql
http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/release-9-0.html#AEN98917

Regards,
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Takahiro Itagaki
NTT Open Source Software Center