Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19FAEB5DBF1 for ; Fri, 20 May 2011 14:32:12 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 36785-04 for ; Fri, 20 May 2011 17:32:01 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from spinlock.commandprompt.com (host-215.commandprompt.net [207.173.203.215]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AC09B5DBE1 for ; Fri, 20 May 2011 14:32:01 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinlock.commandprompt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83972348047; Fri, 20 May 2011 10:32:00 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at commandprompt.com Received: from spinlock.commandprompt.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (spinlock.commandprompt.com.commandprompt.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id oDaaPZVxm2w9; Fri, 20 May 2011 10:31:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from perhan.alvh.no-ip.org (unknown [200.85.213.137]) by spinlock.commandprompt.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5B941348044; Fri, 20 May 2011 10:31:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by perhan.alvh.no-ip.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C6B376E35C; Fri, 20 May 2011 13:31:55 -0400 (CLT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Tom Lane , Peter Eisentraut , pgsql-docs Subject: Re: non-ASCII characters in SGML documentation (and elsewhere) From: Alvaro Herrera To: Susanne Ebrecht In-reply-to: <4DD666DA.8080401@2ndQuadrant.com> References: <1305841740.3952.32.camel@vanquo.pezone.net> <8242.1305892618@sss.pgh.pa.us> <4DD666DA.8080401@2ndQuadrant.com> Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 13:31:55 -0400 Message-Id: <1305912685-sup-1322@alvh.no-ip.org> User-Agent: Sup/git Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201105/77 X-Sequence-Number: 6752 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. -- Álvaro Herrera The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support