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

Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> > While i agree this looks nicer I wonder what it does to things like
> > excel/gnumeric/ooffice auto-recognizing table layouts and importing
> > files. I'm not sure our old format was so great for this so maybe this
> > is actually an improvement I'm asking for.
>
> Yeah. We can do what we like with the UTF8 format but I'm considerably
> more worried about the aspect of making random changes to the
> plain-ASCII output. On the other hand, we changed that just a release
> or so ago (to put in the multiline output in the first place) and
> I didn't hear complaints about it that time.

Sorry for the delayed reply:

The line continuation characters were chosen in 8.4 for clarity --- if
you have found something clearer for 8.5, let's make the improvement. I
think clarity is more important in this area than consistency with the
previous psql output format.

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