On Tue, Nov 5, 2024 at 10:08:17AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 02.11.24 14:18, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 2, 2024 at 12:02:12PM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > > > So you convert LATIN1 characters to HTML entities so that it's easier > > > to detect non-LATIN1 characters is in the SGML docs? If my > > > understanding is correct, it can be also achieved by using some tools > > > like: > > > > > > iconv -t ISO-8859-1 -f UTF-8 release-17.sgml > > > > > > If there are some non-LATIN1 characters in release-17.sgml, > > > it will complain like: > > > > > > iconv: illegal input sequence at position 175 > > > > > > An advantage of this is, we don't need to covert each LATIN1 > > > characters to HTML entities and make the sgml file authors life a > > > little bit easier. > > > > I might have misread the feedback. I know people didn't want a Makfile > > rule to prevent it, but I though converting few UTF8's we had was > > acceptable. Let me think some more and come up with a patch. > > The question of encoding characters as entities is orthogonal to the issue > of only allowing Unicode characters that have a mapping to Latin 1. This > patch seems to confuse these two issues, and I don't think it actually fixed > the second one, which is the one that was complained about. I don't think > anyone actually complained about the first one, which is the one that was > actually patched.
Now that we have a warning about non-emittable characters in the PDF build, do you want me to put back the Latin1 characters in the SGML files or leave them as HTML entities? -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com When a patient asks the doctor, "Am I going to die?", he means "Am I going to die soon?"
