Re: [Docutils-develop] Docutils and Unicode?

[Richard J. <rj...@ek...>]

On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 1:31 pm, David Goodger wrote:
> Andreas Jung wrote:
> > How unicode-aware is Docutils? How does it treat either
> > unicode strings or e.g. UTF-8 encoded strings?
>
> Docutils is very Unicode-aware.  It uses Unicode strings internally,
> and provides for encoded files and strings on input and output.  If
> you're calling Docutils from code, see the
> docutils.core.publish_string convenience function's docstring for
> details.  From the command-line, use the "--input-encoding" and
> "--output-encoding" options.  Details in
> http://docutils.sf.net/docs/tools.html .

I've been sent a patch to support unicode in ZReST - I'm unlikely to be able 
to apply it today, so if someone else wants to, I've attached it :)


    Richard