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

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Susanne Ebrecht <susanne(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: non-ASCII characters in SGML documentation (and elsewhere)
Date: 2011-05-20 17:31:55
Message-ID: 1305912685-sup-1322@alvh.no-ip.org
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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 name of e.g. a person
> or it is a word that English took from French like in déjà vu.

I'd like my name accented in the release notes, thanks.

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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