Re: pgsql: Remove unportable use of SGML character-code entity. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: pgsql: Remove unportable use of SGML character-code entity.
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Msg-id 1336672907-sup-2068@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: pgsql: Remove unportable use of SGML character-code entity.  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of jue may 10 13:52:22 -0400 2012:
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 04:22:40PM +0000, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Remove unportable use of SGML character-code entity.
> >
> > It'd be nice to be able to spell Jan Urbanski's name with the correct
> > accent marks, but we haven't yet found a way that works in everybody's
> > docs toolchain.  This way definitely doesn't.
>
> Accent-N is not available in Latin1, so we are stuck.  We could do
> tilde-N, but that seems wrong.  The good news is that this is the only
> name I couldn't do.

Actually Pavel Stehule's last name has some funny accent too (it's
Stěhule).  I don't think you can do that in Latin1.

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