doc: update guidelines on non-ASCII characters in docs

pull/217/head
Bruce Momjian 8 months ago
parent 24987c6f06
commit fb21ed6c38
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      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

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