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

Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>

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From: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Selena Deckelmann <selenamarie@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, "Brad T. Sliger" <brad@sliger.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2009-10-11T20:39:37Z
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On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 04:35:46PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
>  
> > 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.
>  
> Yeah, anytime one gets sloppy with the distinction between a character
> set and a character encoding scheme, one tends to regret it, sooner or
> later.  Here's we're talking about which glyphs to show -- that's
> based on a character set.

The attached updated patch renames all user-visible uses of
"utf8" to "unicode".  It also updates the documentation
regarding "locale" to "psql client character set encoding"
so the docs now match the code exactly.


Regards,
Roger

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