Pearu Peterson wrote:

Q: How to specify in a rst document the language of its contents?

You can't currently. There's an entry in the to-do list: <http://docutils.sf.net/spec/notes.html#misc-language>. Currently, the way to specify the language is through a runtime setting (see below) or command-line option (-l/--language).

I have rst documents in Estonian language and I have prepared docutils/languages/et.py file but I could not find out how to enable it.

Please contribute it to the project! Also, a docutils/parsers/rst/languages/et.py translation would be appreciated. See <http://docutils.sf.net/spec/howto/i18n.html> for an overview. Note that yesterday I changed the bibliographic_fields data structure in the docutils/languages files.

In case languages cannot be specified in rst documents, here follows a codelet that I am using to transform documents:

import docutils.core docutils.core.publish_file(source_path = src_name, destination_path = dest_name, reader_name='standalone', parser_name='restructuredtext', writer_name='html', )

Add this parameter:: settings_overrides={'language_code': 'et'}, -- David Goodger http://starship.python.net/~goodger Programmer/sysadmin for hire: http://starship.python.net/~goodger/cv