rst syntax parsing in languages not using spaces (eg. japanese, korean)

[Pieter Claeys]

I use a translation office to translate, using the .po workflow.

For Japanese and Korean, there are no spaces between words (I just learned this today - I don't know these languages). 

However, for a bold or italic (and other syntax), the sphinx rst parser expects a space before and after a **part of phrase in bold**.  (some other non-letter characters like . and : also close the syntax).

So, when I build Japanse or Korean, I got large amounts of warnings related to not closing the rst syntax.
(WARNING: Inline strong start-string without end-string.)

I can work around this by adding spaces. This solves the rst syntax problem, but the spaces are also rendered in the final result - which is understandable, but not perfect.

(... and unfortunately Japanese people are striving for perfection :-))

Any other ways to solve this ?  (I am using Sphinx 2.3.1, still - haven't upgraded yet)

[Komiya Takeshi]

Hi,

I usually use a technique that inserts an escaped space before and
after the decorated word.
For example, you can emphasize a word\ *like this*\ using escaped spaces.
It allows you to decorate without spaces. I know this is annoying. But
it helps us.

BTW, trimblank extension might help you. It removes spaces around
inline-markups. AFAIK, some Japanese users use it.
https://pypi.org/project/sphinxcontrib-trimblank/

Thanks,
Takeshi KOMIYA

2020年10月1日(木) 23:47 Pieter Claeys <pi3...@gmail.com>:

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