Re: [PATCHES] WIN32_CONSOLE usage

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Christoph Dalitz <christoph(dot)dalitz(at)hs-niederrhein(dot)de>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred(at)colorfullife(dot)com>, <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] WIN32_CONSOLE usage
Date: 2003-09-10 17:18:24
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0309101917500.1141-100000@peter.localdomain
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Christoph Dalitz writes:

> The easiest would be to withdraw the WIN32_CONSOLE stuff from psql, replace it with
> Manfred's solution and add to the documentation a tutorial how to make 8-bit characters
> work in the Win32 console (with Manfred's solution, it actually only requires to set
> the console font to "Lucida Console"). Alternatively no tweaks to psql could be done,
> and the documentation should describe how the console can be forced to use the proper
> encoding (this is certainly of interest to all win32 users of other applictaions as
> well).

Please send in a patch. Else, someone else is going to try to fix it with
less guarantees that it will work afterwards.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net

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