[reportlab-users] TrueType and German Umlaut

[Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 01:01:39PM +0100, Dirk Holtwick wrote:
> 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?

+1 on that.

IIRC the next version of Reportlab was going to drop Python 1.5
compatibility.  That would be a perfect opportunity.

Marius Gedminas
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