From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, ilmari(at)ilmari(dot)org, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Invisible PROMPT2 |
Date: | 2019-11-18 17:21:53 |
Message-ID: | 20308.1574097713@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 1:49 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> On 2019-Nov-18, Thomas Munro wrote:
>>> Nice idea. Here's one like that, that just does the counting at the
>>> end and looks out for readline control codes. It's pretty naive about
>>> what "width" means though: you'll get two spaces for UTF-8 encoded é,
>>> and I suppose a complete implementation would know about the half
>>> width/full width thing for Chinese and Japanese etc.
> Yeah. Maybe pg_wcswidth() would be OK though, and it's available in
> psql, though I guess you'd have to make a copy with the escaped bits
> stripped out.
Right, you should use pg_wcswidth() or the underlying PQdsplen() function
to compute display width. The latter might be more convenient since
you could apply it character by character rather than making a copy
of the string.
regards, tom lane
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