so 21. 1. 2023 v 17:21 odesÃlatel Greg Stark <st...@mit.edu> napsal:
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 at 00:07, Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > I partially watch an progres in VTE - one of the widely used terminal > libs, and I am very sceptical so there will be support in the next two > years. > > > > Maybe the new microsoft terminal will give this area a new dynamic, but > currently only few people on the planet are working on fixing or enhancing > terminal's technologies. Unfortunately there is too much historical balast. > > Fwiw this isn't really about terminal emulators. psql is also used to > generate text files for reports or for display in various ways. > > I think it's worth using whatever APIs we have available to implement > better alignment for grapheme clusters and just assume whatever will > eventually be used to display the output will display it "properly". > > I do not think it's worth trying to implement this ourselves if the > libraries aren't there yet. And I don't think it's worth trying to > adapt to the current state of the current terminal. We don't know that > that's the only place the output will be viewed and it'll all be > wasted effort when the terminals eventually implement full support. > > (If we were really crazy about this we could use terminal escape codes > to query the current cursor position after emitting multicharacter > graphemes. But as I said, I don't even think that would be useful, > even if there weren't other reasons it would be a bad idea) > +1 Pavel > > > -- > greg >
