Torsdag 20. september 2012 19.27.22 skrev Alan Millington : > Thank you for the link. I am using Notepad, which inserts the byte order > mark. Following the links a bit further, I gather that the version of > Notepad that I am using may not identify a UTF8 file correctly if the byte > order mark is omitted. Also, as I mentioned, Python makes use of it. (From > the Python documentation on Encoding declarations: "If the first bytes of > the file are the UTF-8 byte-order mark ('\xef\xbb\xbf'), the declared file > encoding is UTF-8 (this is supported, among others, by Microsoft’s > Notepad).") > The conclusion seems to be that I must use one editor for Python, and > another for Postgres. It's been a long time since I last wrote a Python script, but I've always used the explicit encoding directive: #! /usr/bin/env python # -*- encoding: utf-8 -*- See http://docs.python.org/release/2.5.1/ref/encodings.html which also mentions the BOM method as an alternative. regards, Leif -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general