Re: Unable to generate man pages for translated sgml

> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org> wrote:
>> Japanese community has been using the DocBook/SGML tool chain with
>> EUC-JP translated documents since SGML was emplyed by
>> PostgreSQL. Problem with 9.0 doc build system is now it's a mixture of
>> DocBook/SGML *and* DocBook/XML(used for man pages). The former *only*
>> accepts EUC-JP, the latter *only* accepts UTF-8. So we are stuck.
> 
> Why don't we just use UTF-8? I'm not sure why EUC-JP is better than UTF-8.

UTF-8 simply does not work with some of current tool chains.

> Also, the original postgres' documentation contains characters not in
> EUC-JP, but in UTF-8. Those characters are discarded in Japanese docs?

I'm not sure how other people deal with UTF-8 since it doesn't work.
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Tatsuo Ishii
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