[reportlab-users] Re: quick hack on para.py

[Dirk Holtwick]

Robin Becker schrieb:
> the important one (at least for most Europeans) grrhhhhhh. I looked this
> up. According to
> http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/ADOBE/symbol.txt the EURO
> SIGN has a codepoint 0x20ac, but your code is assuming 0x80 somehow. I
> think the latin1 is wrong. Things work for me if I use cp1252 throughout.
> 
> I have added the euro as a predefined entity. That will at least allow
> you to do  €


Hi Robin,

how about adding this little helper function?

import types
def toUnicode(s):
    if type(s) is not types.UnicodeType:
        s = unicode(s, "utf8")
    return s.replace(u"\x80", u"\u20ac")

The Euro sign in my examples comes directly from my German Windows
keyboard and worked fine until now in other apps. Maybe it's a bug in
Python?

Bye, Dirk

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# -*- coding: ISO-8859-1 -*-

from reportlab.platypus import *
from reportlab.lib.styles import *
from reportlab.rl_config import *
from reportlab.lib.units import *
from reportlab.platypus.para import *
import os
import types

def toUnicode(s):
    if type(s) is not types.UnicodeType:
        s = unicode(s, "utf8")
    return s.replace(u"\x80", u"\u20ac")

styles = getSampleStyleSheet()

text1 = toUnicode(unicode("Über den Wolken 10,- €", "latin1"))
text2 = toUnicode(unicode("Über den Wolken 10,- €", "latin1").encode("utf8"))
print repr(text1)
print repr(text2)

program = [
    ("align", 2),
    ("push",),
    text1,
    ("size", 20),
    text2,
    ("size", 10),
    "END",
    ("pop",),
    #('nextLine', 0),
    ]

def test():
    doc = SimpleDocTemplate("test.pdf")
    story = []
    p1 = Para(styles["Normal"], parsedText="", bulletText=None, state=None)
    p1.program = program
    story.append(p1)
    p2 = Para(styles["Normal"], parsedText=text2, bulletText=None, state=None)
    story.append(p2)
    doc.build(story)

if __name__=="__main__":
    test()
    os.system("start test.pdf")
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