Ulrich Eck wrote:

Hi there,

i'm working with pyhtonnet to use features from itextsharp ( a dotnet pdf library).

the purpose of the app is to fill out pdf forms from within a turbogears appserver.

i tried several combinations of encodings and passing str/unicode/SystemString types to a utility function that sets the current pdf-form value with no success.

i wrote a c# sample app that loads utf-8 encoded data and processes the pdf. then i ported it to ironpython with no problem (selecting data from sql-db and setting form-values in the pdfstamper).

due to the lack of several essential std-lib modules i decided to use pythonnet with mono within a linux/ubuntu server to access the itext library.

basically everything is working - except that there is a problem with german umlauts when passing values from result-sets to the dotnet library.

the library methods dont accept pure str objects .. when i use unicode (correctly encoded) or SystemString objects the non-ascii chars wont display in the pdf or the resulting pdf is invalid (probably due to wrong encoding).

i know that ironpython has a different string implementation .. is there a way how i can access the dotnet library that behaves similar to ironpythons implementation ?

IronPython basically doesn't have a string implementation at all - you use native .NET strings (which correspond to Python Unicode strings)... Michael Foord http://www.ironpythoninaction.com

any hints would be greatly appreciated

thanks!

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