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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Adding caron to usernames in release notes
Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 13:34:45 -0400
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I just noticed from the commit logs that Pavel's name is spelled Pavel
> Stěhule.  That mark above the e is a caron, and is explained here:
> 
> 	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caron
> 	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%9A
> 
> Can anyone suggest how to get that into the release notes, considering
> that we are limited to HTML4 entities in the SGML?
> 
> 	http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html
> 	http://www.zipcon.net/~swhite/docs/computers/browsers/entities_page.html

It's a Latin2 char so there's no usable representation AFAIK.  There's
an XML numeric escape but I think we cannot use those.

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Álvaro Herrera                http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services


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