Thread: pacify.py (Text reformatter / RTF extractor)
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Old 09-21-2009, 01:04 PM   #70
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
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.
Makes sense.

In your custom logging module, do you have something that reliably down-converts unicode to plain ascii that can be printed even to dumb DOS terminals?

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