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author | Campbell Barton <ideasman42@gmail.com> | 2014-08-05 20:09:26 +0400 |
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committer | Campbell Barton <ideasman42@gmail.com> | 2014-08-05 20:12:52 +0400 |
commit | 5d5b0db724c9c09550e7504e18aee3351a1c22d4 (patch) | |
tree | a2c833c96f33885356db73f513224bf5e40d09a4 /doc | |
parent | 07da01ddb226be37928b670c836bef323f4a2b8a (diff) |
API Docs: typos
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-rw-r--r-- | doc/python_api/rst/info_gotcha.rst | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/python_api/rst/info_gotcha.rst b/doc/python_api/rst/info_gotcha.rst index 5817f0f0d67..35f9c1bda9f 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. |