Bug #58478 Support box-drawing characters (e.g. unicode 251C) in interactive output
Submitted: 25 Nov 2010 4:51 Modified: 25 Nov 2010 5:01
Reporter: Kerrick Staley Email Updates:
Status: Verified Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Command-line Clients Severity:S4 (Feature request)
Version:5.1.49 OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: box, box drawing, box-drawing, interactive, Output, Unicode

[25 Nov 2010 4:51] Kerrick Staley 
Description:
The MySQL command line client should support box drawing characters (such as ├, which is Unicode 251C) instead of +-| for delimiting table boundaries while in interactive mode; this makes output more readable.

How to repeat:
Run a query that produces some tabular output.

Suggested fix:
This option should be selectable via a command line flag. There are some platform-related issues with terminal compatibility but leaving it optional would hurt no one while improving the experience of those whose terminals support such characters.
[25 Nov 2010 5:01] Valeriy Kravchuk 
Thank you for the feature request.
[11 Jul 2015 17:10] Daniël van Eeden 
Related: Bug #77279 (with patch)