Re: Unicode UTF-8 table formatting for psql text output - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Unicode UTF-8 table formatting for psql text output
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Msg-id 15196.1254323373@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Unicode UTF-8 table formatting for psql text output  (Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>)
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Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net> writes:
> The language in SUSv2 in fact explicitly states that this is
> allowed.  In fact, I've seen documentation that some UNIX systems such
> as HPUX already do have a UTF-8 C locale as an option.

I don't argue with the concept of a C.UTF8 locale --- in fact I think
it sounds pretty useful.  What I think is 100% broken is trying to make
C locale work that way.  C locale is supposed to be the traditional
locale-ignorant, characters-are-bytes behavior.
        regards, tom lane


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