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kovidgoyal · 09-21-2009, 01:01 PM

The python logging module at least in 2.x has various unicode related bugs, so I had to implement a custom logging module for calibre as well.

I recently refactored the calibre RTF parser to fix its speed issues, so I'm ok for now. Incidentally, the RTF parser actually output XML which I then convert to HTML using an XSLT stylesheet. It handles a pretty large subset of the RTF 1.5 spec including embedded images and so on. My philosophy in calibre is to accept as large an input set as possible and do *something* with it, even if that something may not be optimal, so untill your RTF parser handles a larger set of input, I think I'll pass.

09-21-2009, 01:01 PM	#69
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,455 Karma: 27757438 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	The python logging module at least in 2.x has various unicode related bugs, so I had to implement a custom logging module for calibre as well. I recently refactored the calibre RTF parser to fix its speed issues, so I'm ok for now. Incidentally, the RTF parser actually output XML which I then convert to HTML using an XSLT stylesheet. It handles a pretty large subset of the RTF 1.5 spec including embedded images and so on. My philosophy in calibre is to accept as large an input set as possible and do something with it, even if that something may not be optimal, so untill your RTF parser handles a larger set of input, I think I'll pass.