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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Susanne Ebrecht <[email protected]>
Cc: 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 13:31:55 -0400
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Excerpts from Susanne Ebrecht's message of vie may 20 09:04:26 -0400 2011:
> On 20.05.2011 13:56, Tom Lane wrote:
> >>        * Should we allow non-ASCII characters in general source files?
> > Prefer "no" here.
> 
> I only see two reasons for non-ASCII signs in English.
> Either it is a foreign name of e.g. a person
> or it is a word that English took from French like in déjà vu.

I'd like my name accented in the release notes, thanks.

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Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
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