;comments&gt;`).  For
example::

   .. This is a comment.

You can indent text after a comment start to form multiline comments::

   ..
      This whole indented block
      is a comment.

      Still in the comment.


Source encoding
---------------

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.  Sphinx assumes source files to be encoded in UTF-8 by
default; you can change this 