Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> This is certainly a workaround, just like piping the file through a
> suitable sed expression would be, but conceptually, the client encoding
> is a property of the file and should therefore be marked in the file.
In a perfect world things would be like that, but the world is
imperfect. When only one of the available encodings even pretends
to have a marking convention, and even that one convention is broken,
imagining that you can fix it is just a recipe for making things worse.
regards, tom lane
