On Sep 22, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Charlie Clark wrote:
> <EF><BB><BF> to be precise. Certainly confuses the shell, less does
> not recognise the file as a text file. I don't know whether this a
> cookie which associates the file with pgAdmin but I don't really
> think it's a bug.
I think what you are seeing is a unicode byte order mark (BOM):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark
I don't know what encoding pgAdmin is using, but if it is UTF-8 then
there is probably no reason to have it. Or at least there needs to be
preference to leave it out.
John DeSoi, Ph.D.
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