On 12/20/07, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 02:53:16PM +0800, bookman bookman wrote: > > I know that every line of utf8 files is started with "fffe" or "feff" > > and ended with "\r\n" in windows but not in linux,so the character > > "1" has a space before it in the error line. > Err, no. In UTF-16 files it is common to begin the *file* with that > character, but UTF-8 doesn't have that character anywhere, it's > illegal. Just stripping them out should be fine. A BOM is perfectly legal in UTF-8, and it's commonly used as a signature to indicate the text is UTF-8 instead of another encoding. But yes, it is at the beginning of the file only. http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#29 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/
