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Re: Proposal: new border setting in psql

D'Arcy Cain <darcy@druid.net> — 2009-01-10T11:31:39Z

On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 22:46:06 -0500 (EST)
Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> 
> >> "." is on the long list of characters to be escaped I sent out earlier.
> >
> > I tried escaping the '.' but it didn't change the behaviour.
> 
> I did try that specific exapmle in Trac and it worked fine for me.  Using 
> your test rig (which you gave the wrong URL to: 
> http://www.druid.net/darcy/rest.py ), I see this:
> 
> I. Test		->	1. Test
> I\. Test	->	I. Test

You are right.  I can't recall the actual test I did but somehow I
found a situation where escaping the period didn't DTRT.  I know that
it was in a table which is all we care about in this discussion but I
just retested and got the same result as you.

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