Re: [DOCS] non-ASCII characters in SGML documentation (and elsewhere)

2011-10-24 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of mié oct 12 18:21:19 -0300 2011: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > Excerpts from Susanne Ebrecht's message of vie may 20 09:04:26 -0400 2011: > > > On 20.05.2011 13:56, Tom Lane wrote: > > > >>* Should we allow non-ASCII characters in general source files?

Re: [DOCS] non-ASCII characters in SGML documentation (and elsewhere)

2011-10-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Excerpts from Susanne Ebrecht's message of vie may 20 09:04:26 -0400 2011: > > On 20.05.2011 13:56, Tom Lane wrote: > > >>* Should we allow non-ASCII characters in general source files? > > > Prefer "no" here. > > > > I only see two reasons for non-ASCII signs in En

Re: [DOCS] non-ASCII characters in SGML documentation (and elsewhere)

2011-06-01 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On fre, 2011-05-20 at 08:16 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > > * Should we allow/use non-ASCII characters in the release > notes? > > > * What encoding should the HISTORY file have? > > > > Ideally "sure, if entity-ified", but I don't know what to do about > > HISTORY. > > Can we reco

Re: [DOCS] non-ASCII characters in SGML documentation (and elsewhere)

2011-05-31 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On fre, 2011-05-20 at 07:56 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > * Should we allow non-ASCII characters in general source > files? > > Prefer "no" here. Going through this I felt a little bad butchering up people's names that hadn't bothered anyone before now. So as a compromise, I made contributor

Re: [DOCS] non-ASCII characters in SGML documentation (and elsewhere)

2011-05-20 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Susanne Ebrecht's message of vie may 20 09:04:26 -0400 2011: > On 20.05.2011 13:56, Tom Lane wrote: > >>* Should we allow non-ASCII characters in general source files? > > Prefer "no" here. > > I only see two reasons for non-ASCII signs in English. > Either it is a foreign na

Re: [DOCS] non-ASCII characters in SGML documentation (and elsewhere)

2011-05-20 Thread Susanne Ebrecht
On 20.05.2011 13:56, Tom Lane wrote: * Should we allow non-ASCII characters in general source files? Prefer "no" here. I only see two reasons for non-ASCII signs in English. Either it is a foreign name of e.g. a person or it is a word that English took from French like in déjà vu. For t

Re: [DOCS] non-ASCII characters in SGML documentation (and elsewhere)

2011-05-20 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie may 20 07:56:58 -0400 2011: > Peter Eisentraut writes: > > * Should we consistently use entities for encoding non-ASCII > > characters in SGML? Or use LATIN1 freely? > > I think we previously discussed this and agreed that all non-ASCII in >

Re: [DOCS] non-ASCII characters in SGML documentation (and elsewhere)

2011-05-20 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut writes: > * Should we consistently use entities for encoding non-ASCII > characters in SGML? Or use LATIN1 freely? I think we previously discussed this and agreed that all non-ASCII in the SGML docs should be written as entities. The existence of violations of tha

Re: [DOCS] non-ASCII characters in SGML documentation (and elsewhere)

2011-05-20 Thread Susanne Ebrecht
Hello Peter, On 19.05.2011 23:49, Peter Eisentraut wrote: So, some questions: * Should we consistently use entities for encoding non-ASCII characters in SGML? Or use LATIN1 freely? * Should we allow/use non-ASCII characters in the release notes? * What encoding sh

[DOCS] non-ASCII characters in SGML documentation (and elsewhere)

2011-05-19 Thread Peter Eisentraut
There are a few literal non-ASCII characters in the SGML documentation, namely in isn.sgml release-7.4.sgml release-8.4.sgml Also, there are some encoded (&foo;) non-ASCII characters in release-8.0.sgml release-8.1.sgml release-8.2.sgml unaccent.sgml These all work fine, because they are all LA