> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Tatsuo Ishii <[email protected]> wrote: >> Japanese community has been using the DocBook/SGML tool chain with >> EUC-JP translated documents since SGML was emplyed by >> PostgreSQL. Problem with 9.0 doc build system is now it's a mixture of >> DocBook/SGML *and* DocBook/XML(used for man pages). The former *only* >> accepts EUC-JP, the latter *only* accepts UTF-8. So we are stuck. > > Why don't we just use UTF-8? I'm not sure why EUC-JP is better than UTF-8.
UTF-8 simply does not work with some of current tool chains. > Also, the original postgres' documentation contains characters not in > EUC-JP, but in UTF-8. Those characters are discarded in Japanese docs? I'm not sure how other people deal with UTF-8 since it doesn't work. -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
