[reportlab-users] Unicode support

[Robin Becker]

bo at bitute.b4net.lt wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 03:12:20PM -0500, Eric Hochmeister wrote:
> 
>>So ReportLab does not support unicode at all?  I've seen examples on
>>the website where reports were being generated for Japanese Medical
>>Reporting.
>>
>>Am I mistaken on this issue?  Can anyone clarify on this??
> 
> 
> Ah, sure you can get output with TTF/UTF-8 if you do unicode(foo, 'utf-8'), but 
> justifincation still does not works. Means, that UTF output you CAN get. The 
> only problem that unicode does not supported in general: AFAIK, there are no 
> unicode strings inside the code. In PLATYPUS justification will not work, for
> example.
> 
> Good news: I heard (but not sure), that Unicode is supported in the CVS snapshot. ;-)
> 
> Robin?
> 
there is more unicode aware code in

http://www.reportlab.co.uk/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/public/reportlab/branches/version2

It is a work in progress though.
-- 
Robin Becker