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

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "Roger Leigh" <rleigh(at)codelibre(dot)net>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Roger Leigh" <rleigh(at)debian(dot)org>, "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Selena Deckelmann" <selenamarie(at)gmail(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Brad T(dot) Sliger" <brad(at)sliger(dot)org>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Unicode UTF-8 table formatting for psql text output
Date: 2009-10-09 21:35:46
Message-ID: 4ACF6662020000250002B86A@gw.wicourts.gov
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)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

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