Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Unicode In 5 Minutes - Second Life Wiki

(charsets, i18n, programming, text, unicode, webdev)

PyRTF - Rich Text Format (RTF) Document Generation in Python

RTF generator written in Python. Looks like a docutils writer based on PyRTF should be pretty trivial, and that might make a better reST -> Word workflow than my current reST -> ODF -> OO.org -> Word nonsense.

(library, programming, python, rtf, text)

Xapian: Theoretical Background

Some good notes on how relevancy algorithms actually work. Must read through this in more detail.

(algorithms, indexing, readloater, relevency, search, text, via:jkocherhans)

ack — a grep replacement that ignores .svn/CVS/blib directories, understands file types, uses Perl regexes, and much more

Whoa, this is *so* much better than grep it's not even funny.

(grep, perl, search, shell, software, sysadmin, text, tools, unix)

nabu: a Publishing System using Text Files

Nabu is a simple framework that extracts chunks of various types of information from documents written in simple text files (written with reStructuredText conventions) and that stores this information (including the document) in a remote database for late

(python, text, web)