Re: Possible to display Unicode symbols in our SGML docs?

On lör, 2009-11-21 at 17:05 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm currently looking at the latest psql-unicode-output patch, which
> includes this bit of proposed documentation:
>
> +      Newlines in data are shown using a carriage return symbol
> +      (<literal>↵</literal>) in the right-hand margin.
> +      Wrapped data uses an ellipsis symbol
> +      (<literal>…</literal>) in the right-hand margin of a
> +      wrapped line, and in the left-hand margin of the following
> +      continuation line.

I don't think there is a strong need to document this at all.  Do we say
anywhere that columns are separated by vertical lines?

> Unfortunately this markup seems to be pure speculation on the author's
> part:
>
> openjade  -wall -wno-unused-param -wno-empty -wfully-tagged -D . -D . -c
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets/catalog-d stylesheet.dsl -t sgml -i output-html -V html-index postgres.sgml 
> openjade:ref/psql-ref.sgml:1797:22:E: "8629" is not a character number in the document character set
> openjade:ref/psql-ref.sgml:1799:22:E: "8230" is not a character number in the document character set
> make: *** [HTML.index] Error 1
>
> Is there a way around that, or should I just delete the attempts
> to show the specific symbols?

DocBook SGML is limited to something like Latin 1.  So delete it.