Re: [Structuredtext-develop] Questions on STX

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

Andreas Jung wrote:
> - Is the project still maintained? The latest release is fairly old.

As Richard said, reStructuredText *is* being actively developed (in
CVS).  There will be a final release (0.4) shortly, after which it
will be merged with the Docstring Processing System project
(http://docstring.sf.net/) and renamed to "Docutils"
(http://docutils.sf.net/).

The latest files are always available in the CVS snapshots (you'll
need both):

- http://docstring.sourceforge.net/dps-snapshot.tgz
- http://structuredtext.sourceforge.net/rst-snapshot.tgz

> - How does structuredtext handle charsets other than ASCII
>   e.g. latin-1 or UTF-8 or unicode ?

The parser itself doesn't know or care about character sets; it's just
passed a string which it processes.  If passed a Unicode string, it
should work just fine (I haven't tested this yet though).  The
reStructuredText parser is just one component of the Docutils system
though.

The rest of the system is using some Unicode internally, but there's
no I/O support yet.  I intend for it to support character sets
flexibly, but haven't gotten around to it yet.  The field is wide
open; suggestions, patches, and enthusiastic developers welcome.

BTW, it's called "reStructuredText" (abbreviation "rtxt" or "rst") to
differentiate it from Zope Corp's "StructuredText" and
"StructuredTextNG".  The SF domain doesn't have the "re" because of a
14-character limit on project names.

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