[Zope-dev] Future of StructuredText

[Andreas Jung]

The exisiting implementation of StructuredText in Zope has
several disadvantages:

  - its behaviour depends on the locale settings (letters and punctuation
    is taken from the locale settings). In some case the locale settings
    are imcomplete (characters ¡ and ¿ are not available through the locales
    as puncuation characters).

  - the behaviour of STX is not very well defined (what are allowed
    letters, what are allowed punctuation characters...)

With the upcoming importance of reStructuredText (PEP 12) there is a real
need for a better StructuredText implementation for Zope. reStructuredText
solves these problems by using a reasonable specification and by avoiding
ambiguities. RIchard Jones also implemented a first version of a
reStructuredDocument product.

I would be fine to have reStructuredText inside the Zope core (for 2.7)
and to deprecate the current StructuredText in the long run.

Open points: how to migrate exisiting STX documents to reStructuredText

Cheers,
Andreas

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