| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: psql display of Unicode combining characters in 8.2 |
| Date: | 2006-12-27 19:49:41 |
| Message-ID: | 21550.1167248981@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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I wrote:
> Actually, looking at the comments for ucs_wcwidth() in wchar.c, it seems
> that this is already accounted for in the "dsplen" output: characters
> for which -1 is returned are control characters, characters for which
> 0 is returned should be printed as-is and counted as zero width. So the
> bug is just that pg_wcsformat conflates the two cases.
I've applied the attached patch to fix this, but not being much of a
user of languages that have combining characters, I can't test it very
well. Please check out the behavior and see if you like it.
regards, tom lane
| Attachment | Content-Type | Size |
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| zerowidth.patch | application/octet-stream | 3.6 KB |
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