X-Original-To: pgsql-docs-postgresql.org@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52A569FB207 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:35:36 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 25335-03-5 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:35:23 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from lists.commandprompt.com (host-130.commandprompt.net [207.173.203.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2216B9FB2C7 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:35:23 -0300 (ADT) Received: from alvh.no-ip.org (201-221-217-241.bk12-dsl.surnet.cl [201.221.217.241]) (authenticated bits=0) by lists.commandprompt.com (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8KKZEKv012862; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:35:16 -0700 Received: by alvh.no-ip.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2DE80C09654; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:35:16 -0400 (CLT) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:35:16 -0400 From: Alvaro Herrera To: Tom Lane Cc: Bruce Momjian , Peter Eisentraut , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: This approach to non-ASCII names does not work Message-ID: <20060920203516.GI5434@alvh.no-ip.org> Mail-Followup-To: Tom Lane , Bruce Momjian , Peter Eisentraut , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org References: <200609202025.k8KKPVI12425@momjian.us> <18459.1158784188@sss.pgh.pa.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <18459.1158784188@sss.pgh.pa.us> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on projects.commandprompt.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender succeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.6 (lists.commandprompt.com [192.168.2.159]); Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:35:16 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.259 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL, FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200609/24 X-Sequence-Number: 3711 Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian 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 -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.