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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2025-05-03 14:45:26 -0400 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2025-05-03 14:45:26 -0400 |
| commit | fb21ed6c38da719149443e78048790c0347e2c9b (patch) | |
| tree | 25a8165a7af161598fad96f848307c950eb36342 | |
| parent | 24987c6f0687576da97b593c6dd5740ccdd23277 (diff) | |
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doc: update guidelines on non-ASCII characters in docs
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/README.non-ASCII | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/README.non-ASCII b/doc/src/sgml/README.non-ASCII index 9c21e02e8f2..e9065a33ad6 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/README.non-ASCII +++ b/doc/src/sgml/README.non-ASCII @@ -22,13 +22,14 @@ others only support Latin-1 characters. Specifically, the PDF rendering engine can only display Latin-1 characters; non-Latin-1 Unicode characters are displayed as "###". -Therefore, in the SGML files, we only use Latin-1 characters. We -typically encode these characters as HTML entities, e.g., Álvaro. -It is also possible to safely represent Latin-1 characters in UTF8 -encoding for all output formats. +Therefore, in the SGML files, we can only use Latin-1 characters. We +can use UTF8 representations of Latin-1 characters, or HTML entities of +Latin-1 characters, e.g., Álvaro. Do not use UTF numeric character escapes (&#nnn;). +When building the PDF docs, problem characters will appear as warnings. + HTML entities official: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html one page: http://www.zipcon.net/~swhite/docs/computers/browsers/entities_page.html |