Hi hackers, src/backend/utils/mb/wchar.c contains a ~16 year old wcwidth implementation that originally arrived in commit df4cba68, but the upstream code[1] apparently continued evolving and there have been more Unicode revisions since. It probably doesn't matter much: the observation made by Zr40 in the #postgresql IRC channel that lead me to guess that this code might be responsible is that emojis screw up psql's formatting, since current terminal emulators recognise them as double-width but PostgreSQL doesn't. Still, it's interesting that we have artefacts deriving from various different frozen versions of the Unicode standard in the source tree, and that might affect some proper languages.
🤔 [1] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/wcwidth.c -- Thomas Munro http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
