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 <br...@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. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com When a patient asks the doctor, "Am I going to die?", he means "Am I going to die soon?"
