Re: [DOCS] Russian FAQ page charset problem

Dave Page wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Nikolay Samokhvalov
> <samokhvalov@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
>>> This was already discussed on the pgsql-www list recently, but there has
>>> been no resolution on what to do yet.
>> What about using UTF8 for Russian text? Why not simply "iconv -f
>> koi8-r -t utf8 ..."?
>
> I thought that was what Bruce was going to do. He has other priorities
> at the moment though, so perhaps one of the the committers could
> handle it.

We could do that, but it is also a question of what the author prefers
for editing. We don't require UTF-8 in other places. And I don't feel
comfortable converting everything (FAQ or not) to UTF-8, because that
loses information in some cases.

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