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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: 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: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:21:19 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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 déjà 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.
I have added the proper markup to our release note checklist; patch
attached. Does anyone else want special handling for their name?
--
Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com
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[text/x-diff] /rtmp/accent (502B, 2-%2Frtmp%2Faccent)
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
new file mode 100644
index 15f273c..c860b90
*** a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
--- b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
*************** non-ASCII characters convert
*** 27,32 ****
--- 27,34 ----
does not support it
http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/latin1.html#latexta
+ Alvaro Herrera is Álvaro Herrera
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