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

Kevin Grittner <kevin.grittner@wicourts.gov>

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>

To: "Roger Leigh" <rleigh@codelibre.net>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e@gmx.net>

Cc: "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: 2009-10-09T21:35:46Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

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.

-Kevin