Re: Filtering dictionaries support and unaccent dictionary

Thanks, Bruce !

Oleg
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On Thursday 13 August 2009 18:07:51 Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>>>> Peter,
>>>>
>>>> how to write accented characters in sgml ? Is't not allowed to write
>>>> them as is ?
>>>
>>> á for ?, etc. You can't use characters that aren't in Latin-1 I
>>> think. Writing them literally is not allowed.
>>
>> It's somehow possible, but it's not as straightforward as say with XML. And
>> you might get into a Latin-1 vs UTF-8 mixup. At least that's what I noticed
>> in my limited testing the other day.
>
> The top of release.sgml has instructions on that because that is often
> something we need to do for names in release notes:
>
> non-ASCII characters convert to HTML4 entity (&) escapes
>
> official: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html
> one page: http://www.zipcon.net/~swhite/docs/computers/browsers/entities_page.html
> other lists: http://www.zipcon.net/~swhite/docs/computers/browsers/entities.html
> http://www.zipcon.net/~swhite/docs/computers/browsers/entities_page.html
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references
>
> we cannot use UTF8 because SGML Docbook
> does not support it
> http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/latin1.html#latexta
>
>

Regards,
Oleg
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