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Re: Unicode UTF-8 table formatting for psql text output

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: "Brad T. Sliger" <brad@sliger.org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Selena Deckelmann <selenamarie@gmail.com>, Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
Date: 2009-09-29T14:21:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 20:49 -0700, Brad T. Sliger wrote:
> During this review I found that `gmake check` will fail when
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 in the environment.  In this case 
> the patched psql produces UTF8 line art and the tests expect ASCII
> line art.
> 
>         pg_regress clears LC_ALL by default, but does not clear LANG
> by default.  Please find attached a patch that 
> causes pg_regress to also clear LANG by default.

It probably doesn't matter much, but I think the proper fix would be to
unset LC_CTYPE.