[Docutils-checkins] SF.net SVN: docutils:[9326] trunk/docutils

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Revision: 9326
          http://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/code/9326
Author:   milde
Date:     2023-02-06 21:34:19 +0000 (Mon, 06 Feb 2023)
Log Message:
-----------
Update documentation on planned changes.

Announce target versions for imminent changes.

Announce raise of required minimal Python version to 3.9.

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/docutils/HISTORY.txt
    trunk/docutils/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
    trunk/docutils/docs/user/config.txt

Modified: trunk/docutils/HISTORY.txt
===================================================================
--- trunk/docutils/HISTORY.txt	2023-02-06 21:04:00 UTC (rev 9325)
+++ trunk/docutils/HISTORY.txt	2023-02-06 21:34:19 UTC (rev 9326)
@@ -13,12 +13,13 @@
 
 .. contents::
 
-Changes Since 0.19
-==================
+Release 0.20b (unpublished)
+===========================
 
 * General
 
-  - Support Python 3.11 (patch #198 by Hugo van Kemenade).
+  - Docutils 0.20 is the last version supporting Python 3.7 and 3.8.
+  - Support Python 3.11 (patch #198 by Hugo van Kemenade).
 
 * docutils/core.py
 

Modified: trunk/docutils/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
===================================================================
--- trunk/docutils/RELEASE-NOTES.txt	2023-02-06 21:04:00 UTC (rev 9325)
+++ trunk/docutils/RELEASE-NOTES.txt	2023-02-06 21:34:19 UTC (rev 9326)
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
 Future changes
 ==============
 
+Drop support for Python 2.7 and 2.8 in Docutils 0.21.
+
 * Usage:
 
   - Docutils 0.21 will provide ``rst2*`` `"console_scripts" entry
@@ -67,15 +69,20 @@
 
   - Raise UnicodeError (instead of falling back to the locale encoding)
     if decoding the source with the default encoding (UTF-8) fails and
-    Python is started in `UTF-8 mode`_.
+    Python is started in `UTF-8 mode`_. (Docutils 0.21)
 
     Raise UnicodeError (instead of falling back to "latin1") if both,
-    default and locale encoding, fail.
+    default and locale encoding, fail. (Docutils 0.21)
 
   - Only remove BOM (U+FEFF ZWNBSP at start of data), no other ZWNBSPs.
     Only remove BOM with `input_encoding`_ values None, '', 'utf-8-sig',
-    'utf-16', and 'utf-32'.
+    'utf-16', and 'utf-32'. (Docutils 0.21)
 
+  - Change the default input encoding from ``None`` (auto-detect) to
+    "utf-8" in Docutils 0.22.
+
+  - Remove the input encoding auto-detection code in Docutils 1.0.
+
 * "html5" writer:
 
   - Stop setting the "footnote-reference" class value for footnote
@@ -113,7 +120,8 @@
 
 * Drop support for `old-format configuration files`_ in Docutils 2.0.
 
-* Remove file ``install.py``. See README.txt__ for alternatives.
+* Remove file ``install.py`` in Docutils 0.21.
+  See README.txt__ for alternatives.
 
   __ README.html#installation
 

Modified: trunk/docutils/docs/user/config.txt
===================================================================
--- trunk/docutils/docs/user/config.txt	2023-02-06 21:04:00 UTC (rev 9325)
+++ trunk/docutils/docs/user/config.txt	2023-02-06 21:34:19 UTC (rev 9326)
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
 
 List values can be comma- or colon-delimited.
 
-strip_classes_, strip_elements_with_classes_, smartquotes_locales_, 
+strip_classes_, strip_elements_with_classes_, smartquotes_locales_,
 stylesheet, stylesheet_dirs, stylesheet_path, legacy_class_functions_,
 and use_bibtex_ use the comma as delimiter,
 whitespace around list values is stripped. ::
@@ -371,8 +371,10 @@
 
 The text encoding for input (use the empty string to restore the default).
 
-Default: auto-detect_ (None).  Options: ``--input-encoding, -i``.
+Default: auto-detect_ (None). [#]_  Options: ``--input-encoding, -i``.
 
+.. [#] The default will change to "utf-8" in Docutils 0.22.
+
 .. _auto-detect: ../api/publisher.html#encodings
 
 input_encoding_error_handler

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