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

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, "Brad T. Sliger" <brad@sliger.org>, 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: 2009-09-30T15:09:33Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net> writes:
> The language in SUSv2 in fact explicitly states that this is
> allowed.  In fact, I've seen documentation that some UNIX systems such
> as HPUX already do have a UTF-8 C locale as an option.

I don't argue with the concept of a C.UTF8 locale --- in fact I think
it sounds pretty useful.  What I think is 100% broken is trying to make
C locale work that way.  C locale is supposed to be the traditional
locale-ignorant, characters-are-bytes behavior.

			regards, tom lane