Re: ucs_wcwidth vintage

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ucs_wcwidth vintage
Date: 2017-11-03 19:38:54
Message-ID: 11718.1509737934@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> Thomas Munro wrote:
>> src/backend/utils/mb/wchar.c contains a ~16 year old wcwidth
>> implementation that originally arrived in commit df4cba68, but the
>> upstream code[1] apparently continued evolving and there have been
>> more Unicode revisions since.

> I think we should update it to current upstream source, then, just like
> we (are supposed to) do for any other piece of code we adopt.

+1 ... also, is that upstream still the best reference?

regards, tom lane

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