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.
