[reportlab-users] Pb with Legend and unicode

[philippe makowski]

Le 26/02/2007 18:07, Robin Becker a dit :

> Robin Becker wrote:

>> philippe makowski wrote:

>>> Hello,

>> ........

>>> File utf_8.py, line 16, in decode

>>> return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)

>>> UnicodeDecodeError : 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-4 : invalid data

>>>

>>> Any Clue ?

>>> (I'm a beginner in Python)

>> ........

>>

>> this is probably a bug. We're supposed to allow for utf8 encoded strings or 

>> unicode everywhere. I'll take a look when I get time.

> 

> I just tried utf8 encoded string and that works for me. Unfortunately the 

> unicode fails and that is a bug.

> 

> As a workaround for now you can use

> 	

> 	unicode('Créations','iso-8859-1').encode('utf8')

> 

> unfortunately we had to choose one encoding for the string values and utf-8 does 

> pretty well everything that unicode does so that got chosen.

thanks