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Mon, 9 Feb 2004 09:18:06 -0500

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I must confess to being no expert with Unicode issues especially where =
they interact with ReportLab and PDF. I'm trying to get a PDF with =
Polish accented characters from the following program :

x =3D u"Oddzia=B3 Dzieci=EAcy Chor=F3b W=B1troby"
x =3D x.encode('iso-8859-2','strict') #What encoding does a u"text" =
string end up in by default?
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from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas
c =3D canvas.Canvas("test.pdf")
c.setFont('Courier',12) #Am I going to need a "Polish character aware" =
font? Any resources for this?
c.drawString(40,700,x)
c.showPage()
c.save()

Also, if anyone has experience with Polish perhaps they could tell me =
whether it is acceptable to "downgrade" the Polish characters to their =
latin-1 equivalents?

Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you.=20

- Ian Sparks.

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interact with ReportLab and PDF. I'm trying to get&nbsp;a PDF with =
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size=3D2></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Also, if anyone has experience with Polish perhaps =
they could=20
tell me whether it is acceptable to "downgrade" the Polish characters to =
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latin-1 equivalents?</FONT></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=3D2>Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you. =
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<P><FONT size=3D2>- Ian Sparks.</FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>

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