Re: UTF8 with BOM support in psql

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Chuck McDevitt <cmcdevitt(at)greenplum(dot)com>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: UTF8 with BOM support in psql
Date: 2009-11-17 17:14:41
Message-ID: 4B02DA01.5060208@dunslane.net
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On tis, 2009-11-17 at 00:59 -0800, Chuck McDevitt wrote:
>
>> Or is there a plan to read and convert the UTF-16 or UTF-32 to UTF-8,
>> so psql and PostgreSQL understand it?
>> (BTW, that would actually be nice on Windows, where UTF-16 is common).
>>
>
> Well, someone could implement UTF-16 or UTF-whatever as client encoding.
> But I have not heard of any concrete proposals about that.
>
>

Doesn't the nul byte problem make that seriously hard?

cheers

andrew

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