José Matos wrote:

> On Tuesday 24 October 2006 8:42 pm, Georg Baum wrote:
>> > What about docbook? Is this always utf8?
>>
>> AFAIK docbook files can be encoded in utf8, latin1 and a number of other
>> encodings, but all relevant tools are able to process utf8.
> 
>   If we use xml, not if we go with sgml.
> 
>   While in the meeting I found that some of those did not work, because in
> sgml we have a list of allowed characters and those were not on it. The
> enconding lists that we have in lib are similar to some of sgml definition
> (I don't remember if this is the standard terminology but this is the
> idea) files.
> 
>   python has a dictionary that has the convertion:
> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-htmlentitydefs.html

So that means that we need to add a postprocessor script for docbook sgml
output?

How important is the sgml variant BTW?


Georg

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