[reportlab-users] TrueType and German Umlaut

Dirk Holtwick reportlab-users@reportlab.com
Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:01:39 +0100


Dinu Gherman wrote:
>   def latin1toUTF8(s):
>     return unicode(s, "iso-8859-1").encode("utf-8")

well, for truetype it works fine, but if I use it for all strings I get 
corrupted output with postscript fonts. maybe reportlab should become 
unicode aware to make the whole more homogenous?