Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0725DB5D801 for ; Fri, 20 May 2011 08:57:07 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 12290-03 for ; Fri, 20 May 2011 11:57:00 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2F1CB5DC3B for ; Fri, 20 May 2011 08:56:59 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p4KBuwQq008243; Fri, 20 May 2011 07:56:58 -0400 (EDT) To: Peter Eisentraut cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: non-ASCII characters in SGML documentation (and elsewhere) In-reply-to: <1305841740.3952.32.camel@vanquo.pezone.net> References: <1305841740.3952.32.camel@vanquo.pezone.net> Comments: In-reply-to Peter Eisentraut message dated "Fri, 20 May 2011 00:49:00 +0300" Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 07:56:58 -0400 Message-ID: <8242.1305892618@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201105/66 X-Sequence-Number: 6741 Peter Eisentraut 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