| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alan Millington <admillington(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | Postgres general mailing list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Using psql -f to load a UTF8 file |
| Date: | 2012-09-20 17:22:12 |
| Message-ID: | 25851.1348161732@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alan Millington <admillington(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> I am running Postgres 8.4.1 on Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3. My database is UTF8. I use psql -f to load files containing DDL and DML commands. I discovered a long time ago that psql does not like UTF8 files: it complains about the byte order mark on the first line. Up to now I have worked round that by making sure that the files were saved as what Microsoft calls "ANSI". However, that option is not available if I want to insert data which includes non-ASCII characters.
FWIW, psql 9.0 and later will ignore an initial BOM if the client
encoding is UTF8.
regards, tom lane
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