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Helmut Jarausch wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> my locale is en_US.iso88591
> 
> But now I'd like to process a restructuredtext file which is encoded in
> utf-8.
> 
> rst2html has
> 
> #!/usr/bin/python3.3
> 
> # $Id: rst2html.py 4564 2006-05-21 20:44:42Z wiemann $
> # Author: David Goodger <goodger@python.org>
> # Copyright: This module has been placed in the public domain.
> 
> """
> A minimal front end to the Docutils Publisher, producing HTML.
> """
> 
> try:
>     import locale
>     locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
> except:
>     pass
> 
> from docutils.core import publish_cmdline, default_description
> 
> 
> description = ('Generates (X)HTML documents from standalone
> reStructuredText '
>                'sources.  ' + default_description)
> 
> publish_cmdline(writer_name='html', description=description)
> 
> --------------
> 
> Even if I comment out the part containing 'import locale' the utf-8
> encoding of my rst-file is not recognized.
> 
> How can I change this so that rst2html use utf-8 when reading and writing
> files. Of course, I don't want to change the docutils package for that.
> 
> Many thanks for a hint,

Hm, there is an --input-encoding option that should allow you to specify the 
encoding on the command line.