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To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: non-ASCII characters in SGML documentation (and elsewhere)
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 08:16:19 -0400
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Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie may 20 07:56:58 -0400 2011:
> Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> writes:
> > * Should we consistently use entities for encoding non-ASCII
> > characters in SGML? Or use LATIN1 freely?
>
> I think we previously discussed this and agreed that all non-ASCII in
> the SGML docs should be written as entities. The existence of
> violations of that rule is just, well, a violation that ought to be
> fixed.
+1
> > * Should we allow/use non-ASCII characters in the release notes?
> > * What encoding should the HISTORY file have?
>
> Ideally "sure, if entity-ified", but I don't know what to do about
> HISTORY.
Can we recode that to plain ascii? I think iconv has a //TRANSLIT flag
or something like that.
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