Re: pgsql: We're going to have to spell dotless i - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: pgsql: We're going to have to spell dotless i
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Msg-id 20060923140701.GC24323@svana.org
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In response to Re: pgsql: We're going to have to spell dotless i  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: pgsql: We're going to have to spell dotless i  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 08:49:02AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> That's not how I understand it.  The document encoding is only related
> to how high-bit characters are interpreted, I am told by Peter, but for
> some reason the toolchain just doesn't support UTF8, even though if you
> use ı in SGML it does come out right in HTML, but new toolchains
> throw an error for it.

Dunno about UTF-8, but openjade only supports one character repertoire,
and that's Unicode (under character handling in the man page).

According to the docbook reference, a way to specify the dotless i
is ı

http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/documentation/reference/html/iso-lat2.html

But it's part of Latin-2, and if your stylesheet declares latin1 as
the only valid characters, then that character is invalid, no matter
how you represent it. I was just surprised, because ı has been
part of docbook since version 3, which is quite some time ago now.

So to me (a more docbook novice) it seems like it's the stylesheet
that's limiting you to latin1, not the docbook parser.

Anyway, the problem has been solved, so we can all get back to testing
the beta now.

Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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