Commit: 5d5b0db724c9c09550e7504e18aee3351a1c22d4 Author: Campbell Barton Date: Wed Aug 6 02:09:26 2014 +1000 Branches: master https://developer.blender.org/rB5d5b0db724c9c09550e7504e18aee3351a1c22d4
API Docs: typos =================================================================== M doc/python_api/rst/info_gotcha.rst =================================================================== diff --git a/doc/python_api/rst/info_gotcha.rst b/doc/python_api/rst/info_gotcha.rst index 5817f0f..35f9c1b 100644 --- a/doc/python_api/rst/info_gotcha.rst +++ b/doc/python_api/rst/info_gotcha.rst @@ -408,17 +408,19 @@ These returns the absolute path which can be used with native python modules. Unicode Problems ================ -Python supports many different encodings so there is nothing stopping you from writing a script in latin1 or iso-8859-15. +Python supports many different encodings so there is nothing stopping you from +writing a script in ``latin1`` or ``iso-8859-15``. See `pep-0263 <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/>`_ -However this complicates things for the python api because blend files themselves don't have an encoding. +However this complicates matters for Blender's Python API because ``.blend`` files don't have an explicit encoding. -To simplify the problem for python integration and script authors we have decided all strings in blend files **must** be UTF-8 or ASCII compatible. +To avoid the problem for Python integration and script authors we have decided all strings in blend files +**must** be ``UTF-8``, ``ASCII`` compatible. This means assigning strings with different encodings to an object names for instance will raise an error. -Paths are an exception to this rule since we cannot ignore the existane of non-utf-8 paths on peoples filesystems. +Paths are an exception to this rule since we cannot ignore the existence of non ``UTF-8`` paths on users file-system. This means seemingly harmless expressions can raise errors, eg. _______________________________________________ Bf-blender-cvs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-blender-cvs
