Re: [GENERAL] postgres.app OS X psql character encoding (utf-8) problem

2014-01-09 Thread Chris Hiestand
On Jan 9, 2014, at 8:56 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Uh-huh. You need to complain to whoever packages Postgres93.app, then. This is done: https://github.com/PostgresApp/PostgresApp/issues/165 Thanks Tom, I appreciate your time. -Chris -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgre

Re: [GENERAL] postgres.app OS X psql character encoding (utf-8) problem

2014-01-09 Thread Tom Lane
Chris Hiestand writes: > postgres93.app is supplied with its own version of libedit. > user@hostname:~ $ otool -L `which psql` > /Applications/Postgres93.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/psql: > /Applications/Postgres93.app/Contents/MacOS/lib/libpq.5.dylib > (compatibility version 5.0.0, current ver

Re: [GENERAL] postgres.app OS X psql character encoding (utf-8) problem

2014-01-09 Thread Chris Hiestand
On Jan 9, 2014, at 1:09 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > What this sounds like is that the readline or libedit library doesn't > understand multibyte characters properly. psql itself doesn't have > anything to do with the display of un-entered lines, but relies on > one of those libraries to manage input

Re: [GENERAL] postgres.app OS X psql character encoding (utf-8) problem

2014-01-09 Thread Tom Lane
Chris Hiestand writes: > If I enter a unicode character in the psql cli, such as: > user=# select 'รถ'; > But before hitting enter, use the keyboard "left" button to move the cursor > across all the way to the left edge, and then back all the way to the right, > the output get distorted and look

[GENERAL] postgres.app OS X psql character encoding (utf-8) problem

2014-01-09 Thread Chris Hiestand
Hi everyone, I am running Postgres93.app (v 9.3.1). I'm new to Postgres, but experienced with MySQL and *nix. I'm having a problem with the command line client "psql" while connecting to postgress.app running on the localhost on OS X. It's behaving as if somewhere a character encoding is set in