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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Susanne Ebrecht <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Pg Docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: non-ASCII characters in SGML documentation (and elsewhere)
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:28:29 -0300
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>


Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of mié oct 12 18:21:19 -0300 2011:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > 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 dj vu.
> > 
> > I'd like my name accented in the release notes, thanks.
> 
> Sure, you want the first "A" in Alvaro with an accent.  I would love to
> backpatch that but it would be royal pain.  I am afraid it can only
> easily be done in future release notes.

Many thanks, Bruce.

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Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
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