>> Just a quick comment on this. Yes, pgAdmin always added a BOM in every
>> SQL files it wrote.
>
> From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2223882/whats-different-between-utf-8-and-utf-8-without-bom:
>
> According to the Unicode standard, the BOM for UTF-8 files is not recommended:
>
> 2.6 Encoding Schemes
>
> ... Use of a BOM is neither required nor recommended for UTF-8, but may be encountered in contexts where UTF-8 data
isconverted from other encoding forms that use a BOM or where the BOM is used as a UTF-8 signature. See the “Byte Order
Mark”subsection in Section 16.8, Specials, for more information.
Right. I think unconditionally adding BOM to a file is evil.
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