Re: UTF8 with BOM support in psql

Itagaki Takahiro wrote:
>  Multi-byte scripts
> without encoding are always dangerous whether BOM is present or not.
> I'd say we can always throw an error when we find queries that contain
> multi-byte characters if no prior encoding declaration.
>
>
>   

You will break a gazillion scripts that today work quite happily if you do.

I think you have really not thought out these proposals well.

Maybe there is a case for a extra command line switch to set the initial 
client encoding for psql, which would make that a little easier and less 
obscure to do. Would that make things simpler for you?

cheers

andrew