Re: Doc: typo in config.sgml

On Sat, Nov 2, 2024 at 12:02:12PM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > Yes, we _allow_ LATIN1 characters in the SGML docs, but I replaced the
> > LATIN1 characters we had with HTML entities, so there are none
> > currently.
> >
> > I think it is too easy for non-Latin1 UTF8 to creep into our SGML docs
> > so I added a cron job on my server to alert me when non-ASCII characters
> > appear.
>
> So you convert LATIN1 characters to HTML entities so that it's easier
> to detect non-LATIN1 characters is in the SGML docs? If my
> understanding is correct, it can be also achieved by using some tools
> like:
>
> iconv -t ISO-8859-1 -f UTF-8 release-17.sgml
>
> If there are some non-LATIN1 characters in release-17.sgml,
> it will complain like:
>
> iconv: illegal input sequence at position 175
>
> An advantage of this is, we don't need to covert each LATIN1
> characters to HTML entities and make the sgml file authors life a
> little bit easier.

I might have misread the feedback. I know people didn't want a Makfile
rule to prevent it, but I though converting few UTF8's we had was
acceptable. Let me think some more and come up with a patch.

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