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

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 05:08:20PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net> writes:
> > 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.
>
> Applied with light editorialization.  The main non-cosmetic change
> I made was to postpone selection of default line_style until runtime
> (see get_line_style() in the committed patch).  The original coding
> required knowledge of the line_style default rule not only in three
> different places in psql, but in every other place using print.c,
> such as createlang/droplang -l (which dumped core with the patch as
> submitted).  I changed it so that leaving line_style NULL implies
> the default encoding-driven behavior, so that we don't need to touch
> any of the callers.

Thanks.  I agree with your improvement in get_line_style(), it's
cleaner this way; I didn't realise print.c was used by the other
programs, sorry about that.


Regards,
Roger

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