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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: non-ASCII characters in SGML documentation (and elsewhere)
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 07:56:58 -0400
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Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> writes:
>       * Should we consistently use entities for encoding non-ASCII
>         characters in SGML?  Or use LATIN1 freely?

I think we previously discussed this and agreed that all non-ASCII in
the SGML docs should be written as entities.  The existence of
violations of that rule is just, well, a violation that ought to be
fixed.

>       * Should we allow/use non-ASCII characters in the release notes?
>       * What encoding should the HISTORY file have?

Ideally "sure, if entity-ified", but I don't know what to do about
HISTORY.

>       * Should we allow non-ASCII characters in general source files?

Prefer "no" here.

			regards, tom lane

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