John Gage wrote: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark > > > > Tends to get added if you go through a Windows system. Useless for > > utf-8 afaik. Confuse the hell out of you because various tools parse > > and hide them then you pipe the file to a script and everything > > falls over. > > > > Bunch of scripts available here to remove them: > > http://www.xs4all.nl/~mechiel/projects/bomstrip/ > > Correct. I found the following via Google. > "I created a file utf8.rb with this content: C:\>ruby -e "p > File.read('utf8.rb')" "\357\273\277puts \"Hello World\"" > The "\357\273\277" part is the Byte Order Mark for UTF-8, my editor > automatically put it at the beginning of the file, because I saved it > as UTF-8." > At least it isn't some evil virus. Have to do Mr. WorkAround now. FYI, this is fixed in Postgres 9.0: Ignore leading UTF-8-encoded Unicode byte-order marker in psql (Itagaki Takahiro) -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
