[reportlab-users] encoding errors

[Robin Becker]

Dirk Holtwick wrote:

> Hi,

> 

> and here I got another error while trying to set a BaseDocTemplate

> "title", "author" and "subject" as Unicode with German umlauts:

> 

> error in line 0: Traceback (innermost last):

>   File "c:\work\pisa\sx\pisapro\pml.py", line 365, in __init__

>     self.doc.build(self.story.pop())

>   File "C:\work\reportlab\reportlab\platypus\doctemplate.py", line 749, in build

>     self._endBuild()

>   File "C:\work\reportlab\reportlab\platypus\doctemplate.py", line 698, in _endBuild

>     if getattr(self,'_doSave',1): self.canv.save()

>   File "C:\work\reportlab\reportlab\pdfgen\canvas.py", line 870, in save

>     self._doc.SaveToFile(self._filename, self)

>   File "c:\work\reportlab\reportlab\pdfbase\pdfdoc.py", line 215, in SaveToFile

>     f.write(self.GetPDFData(canvas))

>   File "c:\work\reportlab\reportlab\pdfbase\pdfdoc.py", line 230, in GetPDFData

>     self.info.digest(self.signature)

>   File "c:\work\reportlab\reportlab\pdfbase\pdfdoc.py", line 1337, in digest

>     md5object.update(str(x))

>  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 17: ordinal not in range(128)

> 

> Yours Dirk

> 

.......

just carping won't make any friends, but bug reports are welcome :)

Anyhow what were the actual string/unicode values that were used for the three? 
I know we've done Japanese for this so it should be possible to get it working.
-- 
Robin Becker