On 15.10.24 18:54, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> I agree with encoding non-Latin1 characters and disallowing non-ASCII
>> characters totally.
>>
>> I found your patch includes fixes in *.svg files, so how about checking
>> also them by check-non-ascii? Also, I think it is better to use perl instead
>> of grep because non-GNU grep doesn't support hex escape sequences. I've attached
>> a updated patch for Makefile. The changes in release.sgml above is not applied
>> yet, though.
> Yes, good idea on using Perl and checking svg files --- I have used your
> Makefile rule.
>
> Attached is an updated patch. I realized that the new rules apply to
> all SGML files, not just the release notes, so I have created
> README.non-ASCII and moved the description there.
I don't understand the point of this. Maybe it's okay to try to detect
certain "hidden" whitespace characters, like in the case that started
this thread. But I don't see the value in prohibiting all non-ASCII
characters, as is being proposed here.
