Torsdag 20. september 2012 16.56.16 skrev Alan Millington : > psql". But how am I supposed to remove the byte order mark from a UTF8 > file? I thought that the whole point of the byte order mark was to tell > programs what the file encoding is. Other programs, such as Python, rely > on this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark While the Byte Order Mark is important for UTF-16, it's totally irrelevant to the UTF-8 encoding. Still you'll find several editors that automatically input BOMs in every text file. There is usually a setting "Insert Byte Order Mark" somewhere in the configuration, and it may be on by default. regards, Leif -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
