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

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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