On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> wrote: > On lör, 2009-11-21 at 17:05 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> I'm currently looking at the latest psql-unicode-output patch, which >> includes this bit of proposed documentation: >> >> + Newlines in data are shown using a carriage return symbol >> + (<literal>↵</literal>) in the right-hand margin. >> + Wrapped data uses an ellipsis symbol >> + (<literal>…</literal>) in the right-hand margin of a >> + wrapped line, and in the left-hand margin of the following >> + continuation line. > > I don't think there is a strong need to document this at all. Do we say > anywhere that columns are separated by vertical lines?
I think it's not intuitively obvious which is which here. It would be nice to mention it. >> Is there a way around that, or should I just delete the attempts >> to show the specific symbols? > > DocBook SGML is limited to something like Latin 1. So delete it. You could always write it out longhand "carriage return (code point 8269)" -- greg -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs
