ReportLab, PDF and Latin-1 characters

[Jarek Zgoda]

Svenne Krap <usenet2002 at krap.dk> pisze:
 
> Being a native danish speaker, we are blessed with three extra letters
> :)
> Working with pdfgen, i get
> 
> <code>
> from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
> c = canvas.Canvas("C:\\mypdf.pdf")
> c.setFont('Arial',12)
> c.setFont('Helvetica',12)
> c.drawString(10,10,'ćřĺ')
> </code>
> 
> but then, I get : 
> 
> <error>
> UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
> </error>
> 
> How do I manage to get Latin-1 (or even better full unicode) support
> in pdfgen ? 

ReportLab _is_ latin (1, 2, 9, 15...) compliant, it only needs unicode
string to be passed to text drawing routines. So:
c.drawString(10, 10, unicode('Zażółć gęślą jaźń'.decode('ISO8859-2')))
should write usual Polish compatibility test ;)

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Jarek Zgoda
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