On Tue, Nov 5, 2024 at 10:08:17AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 02.11.24 14:18, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 2, 2024 at 12:02:12PM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > > > Yes, we _allow_ LATIN1 characters in the SGML docs, but I replaced the
> > > > LATIN1 characters we had with HTML entities, so there are none
> > > > currently.
> > > >
> > > > I think it is too easy for non-Latin1 UTF8 to creep into our SGML docs
> > > > so I added a cron job on my server to alert me when non-ASCII characters
> > > > appear.
> > >
> > > So you convert LATIN1 characters to HTML entities so that it's easier
> > > to detect non-LATIN1 characters is in the SGML docs? If my
> > > understanding is correct, it can be also achieved by using some tools
> > > like:
> > >
> > > iconv -t ISO-8859-1 -f UTF-8 release-17.sgml
> > >
> > > If there are some non-LATIN1 characters in release-17.sgml,
> > > it will complain like:
> > >
> > > iconv: illegal input sequence at position 175
> > >
> > > An advantage of this is, we don't need to covert each LATIN1
> > > characters to HTML entities and make the sgml file authors life a
> > > little bit easier.
> >
> > I might have misread the feedback. I know people didn't want a Makfile
> > rule to prevent it, but I though converting few UTF8's we had was
> > acceptable. Let me think some more and come up with a patch.
>
> The question of encoding characters as entities is orthogonal to the issue
> of only allowing Unicode characters that have a mapping to Latin 1. This
> patch seems to confuse these two issues, and I don't think it actually fixed
> the second one, which is the one that was complained about. I don't think
> anyone actually complained about the first one, which is the one that was
> actually patched.
Now that we have a warning about non-emittable characters in the PDF
build, do you want me to put back the Latin1 characters in the SGML
files or leave them as HTML entities?
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