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From: Jonathan Gonzalez V. <[email protected]>
To: Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Pg Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: splitting pg_resetwal output strings
Date: Sun, 24 May 2026 11:48:13 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

[...]

> I don't think varying font width is something we should care about. 
> The
> multibyte system has a mechanism to tell us how wide the characters
> are,
> in units of some monospace font.  This is what the pg_wcswidth calls
> are
> there for (or internal_wcslength in the patch).  If the terminal
> doesn't
> align the characters correctly according to the declared width
> because
> different fonts are used, that's not our bug.

Exactly, I forgot to clarify that this is to keep in mind if someone
else want to test and reach the same point and had the same questions.



> > [2] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/
> 
> Hmm, I'm not sure what you wanted to show with this URL -- can you
> elaborate?

Just an example of a terminal if someone wants to test something
different, but yeah lack of context.

-- 
Jonathan Gonzalez V. 
EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com


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