Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Thursday 13 August 2009 18:07:51 Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> > > Peter,
> > >
> > > how to write accented characters in sgml ? Is't not allowed to write
> > > them as is ?
> >
> > á for ?, etc.  You can't use characters that aren't in Latin-1 I
> > think. Writing them literally is not allowed.
> 
> It's somehow possible, but it's not as straightforward as say with XML.  And 
> you might get into a Latin-1 vs UTF-8 mixup.  At least that's what I noticed 
> in my limited testing the other day.

The top of release.sgml has instructions on that because that is often
something we need to do for names in release notes:

        non-ASCII characters            convert to HTML4 entity (&) escapes

        official:      http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html
        one page:      
http://www.zipcon.net/~swhite/docs/computers/browsers/entities_page.html
        other lists:   
http://www.zipcon.net/~swhite/docs/computers/browsers/entities.html
                       
http://www.zipcon.net/~swhite/docs/computers/browsers/entities_page.html
                       
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references

        we cannot use UTF8 because SGML Docbook
        does not support it
          http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/latin1.html#latexta

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