[reportlab-users] UTF-8 and fonts

[Andy Robinson]

> Here's what I would consider a step in the right direction: Unicode
> strings everywhere and font classes that convert Unicode characters into
> the appropriate encoding if necessary.  

I agree with this.  It's the only sane direction. It will
however affect a lot of users.

Once we're across onto subversion, I think we have to start
a 'version 2' branch, while maintaining the current 1.x series
for a while.

- Andy