Re: psql blows up on BOM character sequence

On 03/24/2014 08:28 PM, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>> 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.
>
>


Yeah, I think there is no consensus to do anything unless the client 
encoding is UTF8.

cheers

andrew