Re: Possible to display Unicode symbols in our SGML docs?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-docs(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Possible to display Unicode symbols in our SGML docs?
Date: 2009-11-21 23:33:24
Message-ID: 1258846404.30675.4.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On lör, 2009-11-21 at 17:05 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm currently looking at the latest psql-unicode-output patch, which
> includes this bit of proposed documentation:
>
> + Newlines in data are shown using a carriage return symbol
> + (<literal>&#8629;</literal>) in the right-hand margin.
> + Wrapped data uses an ellipsis symbol
> + (<literal>&#8230;</literal>) in the right-hand margin of a
> + wrapped line, and in the left-hand margin of the following
> + continuation line.

I don't think there is a strong need to document this at all. Do we say
anywhere that columns are separated by vertical lines?

> Unfortunately this markup seems to be pure speculation on the author's
> part:
>
> openjade -wall -wno-unused-param -wno-empty -wfully-tagged -D . -D . -c /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets/catalog -d stylesheet.dsl -t sgml -i output-html -V html-index postgres.sgml
> openjade:ref/psql-ref.sgml:1797:22:E: "8629" is not a character number in the document character set
> openjade:ref/psql-ref.sgml:1799:22:E: "8230" is not a character number in the document character set
> make: *** [HTML.index] Error 1
>
> Is there a way around that, or should I just delete the attempts
> to show the specific symbols?

DocBook SGML is limited to something like Latin 1. So delete it.

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