Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2024 21:28:06 -0400
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>
Cc: peter@eisentraut.org, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, nagata@sraoss.co.jp,
	daniel@yesql.se, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Doc: typo in config.sgml
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On Sat, Nov  2, 2024 at 07:27:00AM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 09:54:57AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >> 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.
> > 
> > Patch applied to master --- no new UTF8 restrictions.
> 
> I thought the conclusion of the discussion was allowing to use LATIN1
> (or UTF-8 encoded LATIN1) characters in SGML files without converting
> them to HTML entities. Your patch seems to do opposite.
> 
> https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=641a5b7a1447954076728f259342c2f9201bb0b5

Yes, we _allow_ LATIN1 characters in the SGML docs, but I replaced the
LATIN1 characters we had with HTML entities, so there are none
currently.

I think it is too easy for non-Latin1 UTF8 to creep into our SGML docs
so I added a cron job on my server to alert me when non-ASCII characters
appear.

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