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docs comments: clarify why not to use UTF8 still in docs
Back branches still are SGML.
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doc/src/sgml/release.sgml

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