[reportlab-users] Error with Unicode?

[Schollnick, Benjamin]

Folks,

	I'm working on an reporting module that I am outputting to
PDF...
	But I'm still new with Unicode, and I'm running into a unicode
issue 
	with ReportLab...

	(Or I'm missing handling the unicode management....)

	Now I'm processing the data from a XML file...
	Accessing a Database to processing the audit results...
	And exporting a PDF file for each XML file that I'm
processing...

	(The XML is the raw Audit data, the database contains the raw
	license data, and the PDF file contains the check list for the
	audit)

	I believe the following code...

    print "processing: ", audit_file_name
    for x in classifications:
##        internal_document.RL_Document.append ( "<B> %s </B>" % x)
        data = return_classification_in_listing ( x[0], listing)
        for name in data:
            normal = ParagraphStyle ('Normal')

            internal_document.RL_Document.append ( Paragraph
(escape(name), normal ) )

 #           internal_document.RL_Document.append ( name  )
#
    internal_document.output_document ( filename,orientation )

	is where it is breaking...  Specifically, if 

	name = "American Greetings(r) Art"

	The "Registered" (r) symbol is causing it to "gack"...
	I added the escape(name)  (escape = from xml.sax.saxutils import
escape)
	in case the (R) symbol is a XML literal.  It will gack with or
without the
	escape()...

	Any suggestions?  The code is working fine for the majority of
the cases...
	
		- Benjamin

traceback ---
processing:  .\Audit_USN03811_U233JYHZA658-20050906-082834.xml
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\develope\security\software_listings.py", line 229, in ?
    main ()
  File "C:\develope\security\software_listings.py", line 224, in main
    write_page ( stored_profile, stored_machinename, stored_time,
audit_file_nam
e, listing, software_Classifications)
  File "C:\develope\security\software_listings.py", line 118, in
write_page
    orientation )
  File "rl_wrapper.py", line 124, in output_document
    onLaterPages =   self.All_Other_Pages )
  File
"C:\develope\Python24\Lib\site-packages\reportlab\platypus\doctemplate.p
y
", line 814, in build
    BaseDocTemplate.build(self,flowables)
  File
"C:\develope\Python24\Lib\site-packages\reportlab\platypus\doctemplate.p
y
", line 644, in build
    self.handle_flowable(flowables)
  File
"C:\develope\Python24\Lib\site-packages\reportlab\platypus\doctemplate.p
y
", line 562, in handle_flowable
    if self.frame.add(f, self.canv, trySplit=self.allowSplitting):
  File
"C:\develope\Python24\Lib\site-packages\reportlab\platypus\frames.py",
li
ne 139, in _add
    flowable.drawOn(canv, self._x + self._leftExtraIndent, y, _sW=aW-w)
  File
"C:\develope\Python24\Lib\site-packages\reportlab\platypus\flowables.py"
,
 line 97, in drawOn
    self._drawOn(canvas)
  File
"C:\develope\Python24\Lib\site-packages\reportlab\platypus\flowables.py"
,
 line 82, in _drawOn
    self.draw()#this is the bit you overload
  File
"C:\develope\Python24\Lib\site-packages\reportlab\platypus\paragraph.py"
,
 line 474, in draw
    self.drawPara(self.debug)
  File
"C:\develope\Python24\Lib\site-packages\reportlab\platypus\paragraph.py"
,
 line 722, in drawPara
    t_off = dpl( tx, offset, lines[0][0], lines[0][1], noJustifyLast and
nLines=
=1)
  File
"C:\develope\Python24\Lib\site-packages\reportlab\platypus\paragraph.py"
,
 line 59, in _leftDrawParaLine
    tx._textOut(join(words),1)
  File
"C:\develope\Python24\Lib\site-packages\reportlab\pdfgen\textobject.py",
line 311, in _textOut
    self._code.append('%s%s' % (self._formatText(text), (TStar and ' T*'
or ''))
)
  File
"C:\develope\Python24\Lib\site-packages\reportlab\pdfgen\textobject.py",
line 306, in _formatText
    text = self._canvas._escape(text)
  File
"C:\develope\Python24\Lib\site-packages\reportlab\pdfgen\canvas.py",
line
 231, in _escape
    return _escapePDF(s)
  File
"C:\develope\Python24\Lib\site-packages\reportlab\pdfbase\pdfutils.py",
l
ine 139, in _escape
    return join(map(lambda c, d=_ESCAPEDICT: d[c],s),'')
  File
"C:\develope\Python24\Lib\site-packages\reportlab\pdfbase\pdfutils.py",
l
ine 139, in <lambda>
    return join(map(lambda c, d=_ESCAPEDICT: d[c],s),'')
KeyError: u'\xae'

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