> 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.
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Tatsuo Ishii
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