Re: Adding caron to usernames in release notes

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Adding caron to usernames in release notes
Date: 2013-05-03 17:41:08
Message-ID: 20130503174108.GE15498@momjian.us
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On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 01:34:45PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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.

OK, just confirming. Thanks. Sorry Pavel. Pavel, if you would prefer
some other 'e' character we can use, please let me know.

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