From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
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Subject: Re: Detailed release notes
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Comments: In-reply-to Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> I thought we were restricted to Latin-1 characters, because those are
> the only characters that the PDF output supports.

> However, since we decided not to have the commit detail links in the PDF
> output, it is actually safe to use _any_ Unicode character as the commit
> detail link.

I don't think that gives us carte blanche to use anything whatsoever.
It has to be something that will be present in the fonts available on
Joe Average's web browser, and I think that means it had better be
something that has been around a long time.  Sticking to LATIN-1 is
not such a bad idea from this perspective.  (As an example, the
slightly old version of Emacs I'm using is failing to render
 at all.)

Also, at least when looking at your message in Safari, 
is just enormous in comparison to §.  I think it would be quite
visually distracting, especially for release notes with several links.

			regards, tom lane