On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> The thing that makes me doubt that is this comment from Tatsuo Ishii:
>> TI> COPY explicitly specifies the encoding (to be UTF-8 in this case). So
>> TI> I think we should not regard U+FEFF as "BOM" in COPY, rather we should
>> TI> regard U+FEFF as "ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE".
>
> Yeah, that's a reasonable argument for rejecting the patch altogether.
Yeah, or for making the behavior optional.
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