Re: Support UTF-8 files with BOM in COPY FROM

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 06:58, Itagaki Takahiro
<itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to support UTF-8 text or csv files that has BOM (byte order mark)
> in COPY FROM command. BOM will be automatically detected and ignored
> if the file encoding is UTF-8. WIP patch attached.
>
> I'm thinking about only COPY FROM for reads, but if someone wants to add
> BOM in COPY TO, we might also support COPY TO WITH BOM for writes.
>
> Comments welcome.

I like it in general. But if we're looking at the BOM, shouldn't we
also look and *reject* the file if it's a BOM for a non-UTF8 file? Say
if the BOM claims it's UTF16?

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