Re: [Docutils-develop] [PATCH] Swedish translations

[David G. <go...@us...>]

[Adam]
>>> So apparantly ``.. Inneh=C2ll::`` is recognized as a valid directive at
>>> *some* level, but later turned into a comment instead. I haven't tried
>>> finding out what's wrong, yet.

[David]
>> I haven't had a chance to look at the code, and I won't for a few days (=
we
>> have visitors), but I do have an idea.  Probably, the directive-detectin=
g
>> regular expression is checking for a "simple name" which is alphanumeric=
s
>> plus "-", "_", and ".".  "Alphanumerics" is probably limited to
>> "[a-zA-Z0-9]", and should be expanded to cover the locale's idea of what
>> letters should be, including accents.  The "=C2" in "Inneh=C2ll" is probably
>> throwing it off.

[Adam]
> I still haven't had time to investigate further, but it struck me
> that using the current locale for this simply won't work: it needs
> to be determined from the language (that docutils gets with
> --language). The reason is in server / build environments where you
> need to build the docs correctly in a multitud of different
> languages, when the locale will probably be "C". So this needs to be
> controlled in some language file, I think.

Or we can just use "\w" in regexes, combined with re.UNICODE.  That
way, *all* alphanumerics in Unicode, no matter what language, will be
matched.  It's a bit tricky, since "\w" is defined as "[a-zA-Z0-9_]"
(plus lots more, for Unicode), and sometimes we don't want the
"[0-9_]".  I'll give it a try.  ...  Done; see the latest CVS.

> On the subject of languages, how about adding a directive (or
> bibliographic field) for specyfying the language used by the
> document?

I'm not sure if a bibliographic field is appropriate.  The directive
idea is already in the To Do list (where it will stay until someone
wants it enough).  Patches are always welcome!

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