rtfunicode
Encoder for unicode to RTF 1.5 command sequences
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Yes. The package is lightweight, actively maintained, has no dependencies, and solves a specific problem with a clean API. It carries permissive licensing and no known vulnerabilities. Install it if you need to generate RTF output with international characters; skip it if you don't work with RTF.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires Python 3.10 or newer.
- Low install friction with no runtime dependencies.
- Actively maintained with recent commits and a stable release history since 2012; last release was 2026-01-17.
License · maintenance · safety
BSD-2-Clause (permissive) — BSD-2-Clause is permissive, allowing commercial and private use with minimal restrictions; attribution and license text preservation are required.
last release 2026-01-17 (209 days) · last repo commit 2026-08-14 · 19 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 133,990 downloads/mo, #11,490 on PyPI
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Verify before relying
import rtfunicode
'RTF and unicode mix just fine! \u263A'.encode('rtfunicode')- Whether the codec handles all Unicode planes or only the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) via 16-bit signed integers.
- Performance characteristics when encoding large documents or streams with many non-ASCII characters.
What it is and what it does
rtfunicode is a codec module that bridges Unicode and RTF by converting Unicode strings into valid RTF 1.5 command sequences. When imported, it registers a new codec that allows you to call `.encode('rtfunicode')` on any Unicode string, transforming international characters into RTF escape codes of the form `\uN?`, where N is a signed 16-bit integer and ? is a placeholder character for older RTF readers.
The package is lightweight with no external dependencies and is designed for developers who need to generate RTF documents containing non-ASCII characters. It has been maintained since 2012 and currently requires Python 3.10 or newer. The implementation is straightforward: it converts each Unicode character to its RTF command equivalent, making it useful for applications that export text data to RTF format while preserving international characters.
Use it for
- Export Unicode text to RTF documents with proper international character encoding for word processors.
- Generate RTF reports or templates containing non-ASCII characters from Python applications.
- Convert user-supplied Unicode strings to RTF-compatible bytecode in document generation pipelines.
- Ensure backward compatibility with older RTF readers by encoding Unicode as RTF escape sequences.
Worth the install?
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Yes.
The package is lightweight, actively maintained, has no dependencies, and solves a specific problem with a clean API. It carries permissive licensing and no known vulnerabilities. Install it if you need to generate RTF output with international characters; skip it if you don't work with RTF.
Install
rtfunicode on PyPI
Before you install
Low install friction with no runtime dependencies. Actively maintained with recent commits and a stable release history since 2012; last release was 2026-01-17.
Requires Python 3.10 or newer.
License in practice
BSD-2-Clause is permissive, allowing commercial and private use with minimal restrictions; attribution and license text preservation are required.
Quickstart
import rtfunicode
'RTF and unicode mix just fine! \u263A'.encode('rtfunicode')Verify before relying
- Whether the codec handles all Unicode planes or only the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) via 16-bit signed integers.
- Performance characteristics when encoding large documents or streams with many non-ASCII characters.
Package facts
| License | BSD-2-Clause permissive |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release >=3.10 |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | None |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained 209 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 133,990 / month, #11,490 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
| Classifiers | Development Status :: 5 - Production/StableIntended Audience :: DevelopersLicense :: OSI Approved :: BSD LicenseProgramming Language :: Python :: 3 |
Evidence: rtfunicode-2.3-py3-none-any.whl
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