On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 10:00:15AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 15.10.24 23:51, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 05:27:49PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > > > Well, we can only use Latin-1, so the idea is that we will be explicit
> > > > about specifying Latin-1 only as HTML entities, rather than letting
> > > > non-Latin-1 creep in as UTF8. We can exclude certain UTF8 or SGML files
> > > > if desired.
> > >
> > > That policy would cause substantial problems with contributor names
> > > in the release notes. I agree with Peter that we don't need this.
> > > Catching otherwise-invisible characters seems sufficient.
> >
> > Uh, why can't we use HTML entities going forward? Is that harder?
>
> I think the question should be the other way around. The entities are a
> historical workaround for when encoding support and rendering support was
> poor. Now you can just type in the characters you want as is, which seems
> nicer.
Yes, that does make sense, and if we fully supported Unicode, we could
ignore all of this.
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