[reportlab-users] Filenames on Windows

[Wietse Jacobs]

2009/7/31 Peter <peter at maubp.freeserve.co.uk>:

> 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.


Thanks for the suggestion, this works without having to change any
reportlab code.


> Peter


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--Wietse