Original Translation
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Every explicit markup block which isn't a valid markup construct (like the footnotes above) is regarded as a comment.
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Source encoding
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Since the easiest way to include special characters like em dashes or copyright signs in reST is to directly write them as Unicode characters, one has to specify an encoding:
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All Python documentation source files must be in UTF-8 encoding, and the HTML documents written from them will be in that encoding as well.
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Gotchas
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There are some problems one commonly runs into while authoring reST documents:
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**Separation of inline markup:** As said above, inline markup spans must be separated from the surrounding text by non-word characters, you have to use an escaped space to get around that.
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Style Guide
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The Python documentation should follow the `Apple Publications Style Guide`_ wherever possible. This particular style guide was selected mostly because it seems reasonable and is easy to get online.
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Topics which are not covered in Apple's style guide will be discussed in this document.