Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 09:54:57 -0400
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Yugo NAGATA <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>,
	Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>, daniel@yesql.se,
	pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Doc: typo in config.sgml
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On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 10:00:15AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 15.10.24 23:51, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 05:27:49PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > > > Well, we can only use Latin-1, so the idea is that we will be explicit
> > > > about specifying Latin-1 only as HTML entities, rather than letting
> > > > non-Latin-1 creep in as UTF8.  We can exclude certain UTF8 or SGML files
> > > > if desired.
> > > 
> > > That policy would cause substantial problems with contributor names
> > > in the release notes.  I agree with Peter that we don't need this.
> > > Catching otherwise-invisible characters seems sufficient.
> > 
> > Uh, why can't we use HTML entities going forward?  Is that harder?
> 
> I think the question should be the other way around.  The entities are a
> historical workaround for when encoding support and rendering support was
> poor.  Now you can just type in the characters you want as is, which seems
> nicer.

Yes, that does make sense, and if we fully supported Unicode, we could
ignore all of this.

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