[reportlab-users] Special characters in text

[Dick Kniep]

Hi list,

Probably this has been asked before, but I cannot find it in the archives.

We are using reportlab to generate PDF's and this works nicely. However, data 
used is entered by users, so there is no way of knowing what data will be 
there. Now if some of the data contains an & or an % sign, the application 
crashes. I use the following command to add the text to the report:

Paragraph(fld,parStyle)

Hope someone knows how to deal with this.

Cheers,
Dick