Re: Adding caron to usernames in release notes

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Adding caron to usernames in release notes
Date: 2013-05-03 17:34:45
Message-ID: 20130503173445.GJ2467@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I just noticed from the commit logs that Pavel's name is spelled Pavel
> Stěhule. That mark above the e is a caron, and is explained here:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caron
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%9A
>
> Can anyone suggest how to get that into the release notes, considering
> that we are limited to HTML4 entities in the SGML?
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html
> http://www.zipcon.net/~swhite/docs/computers/browsers/entities_page.html

It's a Latin2 char so there's no usable representation AFAIK. There's
an XML numeric escape but I think we cannot use those.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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