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| author | georg.brandl <devnull@localhost> | 2008-10-16 20:31:28 +0000 |
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| committer | georg.brandl <devnull@localhost> | 2008-10-16 20:31:28 +0000 |
| commit | 54775cadde0eb1f0568f5a8eecd36f5a60d2f8da (patch) | |
| tree | 875b4d53c4a0822fe170ee5397389d1d89979af6 /doc/rest.rst | |
| parent | ee57382c32600102729c81ad78dd1ab985cde740 (diff) | |
| download | sphinx-54775cadde0eb1f0568f5a8eecd36f5a60d2f8da.tar.gz | |
UTF-8 isn't mandatory anymore.
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diff --git a/doc/rest.rst b/doc/rest.rst index 946f54f5..9820aea2 100644 --- a/doc/rest.rst +++ b/doc/rest.rst @@ -265,10 +265,8 @@ Source encoding Since the easiest way to include special characters like em dashes or copyright signs in reST is to directly write them as Unicode characters, one has to -specify an encoding: - -All documentation source files must be in UTF-8 encoding, and the HTML -documents written from them will be in that encoding as well. +specify an encoding. Sphinx assumes source files to be encoded in UTF-8 by +default; you can change this with the :confval:`source_encoding` config value. Gotchas @@ -278,6 +276,6 @@ There are some problems one commonly runs into while authoring reST documents: * **Separation of inline markup:** As said above, inline markup spans must be separated from the surrounding text by non-word characters, you have to use - an escaped space to get around that. + a backslash-escaped space to get around that. .. XXX more? |