On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 10:20:22AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > On the other hand, I don't understand why DocBook would be Latin-1 > > only. What would be the point of that limitation? Some googling > > seems to reveal that people indeed uses other charsets, UTF-8 in > > particular (but also Big5, Latin-2, etc), so apparently this isn't > > set in stone. (I admit that they mainly talk about XML Docbook > > though). > > DocBook SGML is Latin 1; DocBook XML, like all XML, is UCS-4.
This sheds a new light on the XML vs. SGML thing you said before. While it's not necessarily compelling enough to force a switch, it is a substantive difference that we can actually see. Cheers, D -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remember to vote! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
