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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Cc: Muhammad Ikram <mmikram@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: A minor bug in doc. Hovering over heading shows # besides it.
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 09:49:05 -0400
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Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> writes:
> While not a standard the pilcrow [0] is, AFAICT from a bit of looking at other
> docs, commonly used for this.  There is a lot of variability though so
> whichever we choose it will be wrong one for someone.

I like this suggestion better because that's U+00B6, ie part of
LATIN-1, so it's *far* more likely to render correctly everywhere
than U+01F517 is.  We could also consider the section sign ยง
(U+00A7).

In any case, a tooltip would help reduce confusion.

			regards, tom lane





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