Searching for UTF8 capable font for REPORTLAB
JanC
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Fri Jan 16 22:48:09 EST 2004
Andreas Jung <lists at andreas-jung.com> schreef:
> Reportlab has some problems with creating PDFs from UTF8 encoded text.
> For this reason they are using a truetype font rina.ttf which looks
> *very ugly*. Does anyone know of a suitable free available truetype
> font that works with UTF8?
AFAIK a "UTF8 capable TrueType font" doesn't exist; but most modern
TrueType fonts have Unicode character tables?
(From the screenshots in the userguide.pdf Rina doesn't look ugly IMHO, but
it's clearly not intended for large pieces of body text. :-)
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