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authorBruce Momjian2018-05-01 13:26:11 +0000
committerBruce Momjian2018-05-01 13:26:11 +0000
commit3960fa5f6396865ded34d9276324e9a31857cff1 (patch)
treeffa587333aa8cc4e75d5de0d27bcc80037c7d6c6
parent5a6ab0a1b157a27da7160565ee2f1815e94a6122 (diff)
docs comments: clarify why not to use UTF8 still in docs
Back branches still are SGML.
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/release.sgml7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
index a815a48b8d..339618ddd2 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
@@ -26,10 +26,11 @@ non-ASCII characters find using grep -P '[\x80-\xFF]'
http://www.zipcon.net/~swhite/docs/computers/browsers/entities_page.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references
- we cannot use UTF8 because SGML Docbook does not support it
+ We cannot use UTF8 because back branches still use SGML Docbook,
+ which does not support it.
- do not use numeric _UTF_ numeric character escapes (&#nnn;),
- we can only use Latin1
+ Do not use numeric _UTF_ numeric character escapes (&#nnn;),
+ we can only use Latin1.
Example: Alvaro Herrera is Álvaro Herrera