Re: [Docutils-users] "charset=utf-8" and Konqueror

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

Greg Ward wrote:
> Just doing my first mass restructuredtextification (is that the
> appropriate terminology?)

If you like. :-)

> of some docs, and I noticed that Konqueror 2.2.2 formats HTML
> documents slightly differently if they have
> 
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
> 
> -- in particular, the vertical line spacing is too much.  If I edit
> out the "charset=utf-8", then it looks perfectly ordinary.  Ditto if
> I s/utf-8/us-ascii/ -- that looks fine.
> 
> Anyone else seen this?  Guess I'll just use "-o us-ascii" for now.

I haven't seen it myself, but it sounds like Konqueror may be using a
different font for Unicode text, with different whitespace
metrics.  If your documents are exclusively ASCII, and you don't use
symbol footnotes (which may produce Unicode symbols; references look
like this: [*]_), you should be fine.  You could use "-o latin-1" to
allow a little more latitude.  You could even put "output-encoding:
latin-1" in your config file and be done with it; see
http://docutils.sf.net/docs/tools.html#configuration-files .

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