Emil Hessman <ceh@otaku.se> writes:

> Thus wrote Klaus Heinz:
>
>> [ moved to netbsd-docs ]
>> 
>> Rui Paulo wrote:
>> 
>> > I think he should set the enconding in the first line of the XML 
>> > files and then use the native language accents/punctuation/etc.
>> 
>> So far, I always use character entities for German umlauts instead of
>> ISO-8859-1. Since NetBSD's localization features still leave a lot to
>> be desired I felt this would make it easier for everybody.
>> 
>> Should we encourage people to use their native character sets or leave
>> it up to them?
>
>    For portability reasons, I'd prefer use of either UTF-8 or XML
> entities.

What portability reasons are you talking about ?

> According to the NetBSD guide, XML entities are preferable to
> national characters;
>
> http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/ap-contrib.html#ap-contrib-translating-writing-docbook

Yes, but we were discussing if this is the correct way or not. It's
PITA to write documentation using XML entities.

		-- Rui Paulo