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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: This approach to non-ASCII names does not work
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:35:16 -0400
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
> > Yes, I use them where possible.  I use:
> > 	http://www.mountaindragon.com/html/iso.htm
> 
> ... which says right on it that it considers only ISO 8859/1 and is not
> a complete list even of that set.
> 
> I assume that somewhere there is a Web-related spec of the widely
> recognized entity names, but I see no reason to suppose that this list
> is it.  Something at w3c, say, would have a tad more credibility.

Maybe this:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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