| From: | Leif Biberg Kristensen <leif(at)solumslekt(dot)org> |
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| To: | Postgres general mailing list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Alan Millington <admillington(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk> |
| Subject: | Re: Using psql -f to load a UTF8 file |
| Date: | 2012-09-20 15:44:59 |
| Message-ID: | 201209201744.59685.leif@solumslekt.org |
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Torsdag 20. september 2012 16.56.16 skrev Alan Millington :
> psql". But how am I supposed to remove the byte order mark from a UTF8
> file? I thought that the whole point of the byte order mark was to tell
> programs what the file encoding is. Other programs, such as Python, rely
> on this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark
While the Byte Order Mark is important for UTF-16, it's totally irrelevant to
the UTF-8 encoding. Still you'll find several editors that automatically input
BOMs in every text file. There is usually a setting "Insert Byte Order Mark"
somewhere in the configuration, and it may be on by default.
regards, Leif
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