[reportlab-users] again russian language question

[Marius Gedminas]

On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 06:30:50PM +0300, alienoid wrote:
> Hello reportlab-users,
> 
> I used TrueTtype font with cyrrilic support. Made as described in
> reportlab docs 'TrueType Font Support'.
> 
> String for displaying:
> 
> s = u."Here goes string in russian language in cp1251(in Windows
> Notepad)".encode('utf-8')

Try

  s = unicode("Here goes string in russian language in cp1251(in Windows Notepad)", "cp1251").encode("utf-8")

I don't think it is safe to rely on Python to guess the correct encoding
in u"XXX" literals.

Marius Gedminas
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