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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: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Brad T. Sliger" <brad@sliger.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Selena Deckelmann <selenamarie@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
Date: 2009-10-09T21:28:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 19:35 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> This patch included a bit of code not intended for inclusion
> (setting of client encoding based on locale), which the attached
> (and hopefully final!) revision of the patch excludes.

Well, the documentation still claims that this is dependent on the
locale.  This should be updated to match the code.

I think the setting ought be called linestyle unicode (instead of utf8),
since the same setting would presumably work in case we ever implement
UTF-16 support on the client side.