Re: UTF8 with BOM support in psql

Itagaki Takahiro wrote:
> UTF8 encoding text files with BOM (Byte Order Mark) are commonly
> used in Windows, though BOM was designed for UTF16 text originally.
> However, psql cannot read such format even if we set client encoding
> to UTF8. Is it worth supporting those format in psql?
> 
> When psql opens a file with -f or \i, it checks first 3 bytes of the
> file. If they are BOM, discard the 3 bytes and change client encoding
> to UTF8 automatically.
> 
> Is this change reasonable? Comments welcome.

Seems there is community support for accepting BOM:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-09/msg01625.php

Should I add this as a TODO item?

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