| From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Subject: | Re: pgsql: We're going to have to spell dotless i |
| Date: | 2006-09-24 16:22:33 |
| Message-ID: | 20060924162233.GA12188@fetter.org |
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On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 10:20:22AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > On the other hand, I don't understand why DocBook would be Latin-1
> > only. What would be the point of that limitation? Some googling
> > seems to reveal that people indeed uses other charsets, UTF-8 in
> > particular (but also Big5, Latin-2, etc), so apparently this isn't
> > set in stone. (I admit that they mainly talk about XML Docbook
> > though).
>
> DocBook SGML is Latin 1; DocBook XML, like all XML, is UCS-4.
This sheds a new light on the XML vs. SGML thing you said before.
While it's not necessarily compelling enough to force a switch, it is
a substantive difference that we can actually see.
Cheers,
D
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