docs comments: clarify why not to use UTF8 still in docs

Back branches still are SGML.
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Bruce Momjian 2018-05-01 09:26:11 -04:00
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@ -26,10 +26,11 @@ non-ASCII characters find using grep -P '[\x80-\xFF]'
http://www.zipcon.net/~swhite/docs/computers/browsers/entities_page.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references
we cannot use UTF8 because SGML Docbook does not support it
We cannot use UTF8 because back branches still use SGML Docbook,
which does not support it.
do not use numeric _UTF_ numeric character escapes (&#nnn;),
we can only use Latin1
Do not use numeric _UTF_ numeric character escapes (&#nnn;),
we can only use Latin1.
Example: Alvaro Herrera is Álvaro Herrera