[reportlab-users] encoding errors

[Dirk Holtwick]

Robin Becker schrieb:

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

>   

Do you have a bugtracking system where to put those?


> 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.

>   

Then please try this one, where "Broschüre" contains the German Umlaut:

# -*- 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

class PmlBaseDoc(SimpleDocTemplate):

    def beforePage(self):
        test = unicode("Broschüre","latin1")
        # test = "ASCII Sample"
        self.canv.setAuthor(test)
        self.canv.setSubject(test)
        self.canv.setTitle(test)

styles = getSampleStyleSheet()

def test():
    doc = PmlBaseDoc("test.pdf")
    story = []
    story.append(Paragraph("Hello World", styles["Normal"]))
    doc.build(story)

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

And that's the error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "title.py", line 29, in ?
    test()
  File "title.py", line 26, in test
    doc.build(story)
  File "c:\work\reportlab\reportlab\platypus\doctemplate.py", line 898,
in build
    BaseDocTemplate.build(self,flowables, canvasmaker=canvasmaker)
  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 6: ordinal not in range(128)