[Docutils-develop] Docutils, Python PEPs, and non-ASCII day names

[Facundo B. <fac...@gm...>]

Hi!

I have a problem in the Python project related to docutils.

I wanted to make a change in some Python PEPs. So I checked out the
PEPs from the SVN and run "make", and it crashes with the following:

  SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc3' in file
    .../peps/docutils/parsers/rst/directives/images.py
    on line 4, but no encoding declared;
    see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
  make: *** [pep-0001.html] Error 1


Line 4 of that file says:

  # Date: $Date: 2005-12-28 22:14:21 -0300 (mi=E9, 28 dic 2005) $

Notice the day name: mi=E9. This is because the $date of the file is
translated by SVN, and in Spanish Wednesday is Mi=E9rcoles.

The solution to this is to put a "-*- coding:utf8 -*-" line in the
beginning of this file and all where happens the same.

I'm pretty sure that this file comes from the Docutils project,
because in the PEP SVN it makes a checkout from svn.berlios.de, but I
actually don't know how this is done, and I'm not finding which files
are checked out.

If you please point me, I can fix these. The "coding" line won't hurt
anybody, and help all those that have non-ASCII characters in the
locale day names.

Thanks for the help!

Regards,

--=20
.    Facundo

Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/
PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/