[reportlab-users] Filenames on Windows

[Peter]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Wietse Jacobs<wietse.j at gmail.com> wrote:

>

> Hello,

>

> We've run into a problem when saving a pdf file with reportlab if the

> filename contains non-ascii characters. This is on Windows.

>

> The problem is with how Python handles the "open(filename)" function

> on Windows in combination with the fact that reportlab will always

> encode a unicode string as utf-8:


As a work around, have you tried giving ReportLab a handle, instead
of a filename? That way you can control how it is named and opened.

Peter