[reportlab-users] Japanese & other Asian character support

[Volker Haas]

On 10/13/2010 06:45 PM, Benjamin Higgins wrote:

> Andy,

>

> Excellent suggestion with breaking up the text with<font>s.  I hadn't

> thought of that.  Thanks a lot!

>

> Ben

Hi Ben,

I developed fontswitching for the mwlib project (PDFs from Wikipedia 
articles) in the same way Andy suggested above. If you like take a look 
at http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/wiki/mwlibrl
This might be overkill, and the documentation isn't exactly great. But 
the "fontifyText" method in 
http://code.pediapress.com/git/mwlib.rl?p=mwlib.rl;a=blob;f=mwlib/rl/fontconfig.py;h=98737355a590e7c89c20b509dce59012a70d6d6f;hb=HEAD 
does pretty much what you need.

I can supply a minimal example how to use that if you think it's a 
viable route.

Best,
Volker


> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Andy Robinson<andy at reportlab.com>  wrote:

>> On 12 October 2010 22:58, Benjamin Higgins<bhiggins at gmail.com>  wrote:

>>> I have a bunch of text that includes Latin *and* Japenese characters,

>>> all intermixed (really!).  It may also, someday, include other Asian

>>> characters.  I want the Latin characters in Helvetica and the Japanese

>>> characters in whatever makes the most sense.  Right now the Japanese

>>> characters show up as black squares.  How do I best approach this?

>>>

>> The simplest approach for you would be to see if you can live with the

>> Latin glyphs in the built-in Japanese fonts.

>>

>> Otherwise, you would need to scan through your paragraphs and break

>> them into chunks based on the Unicode code points, using the<font>

>> tag which can be embedded to switch fonts in mid-text.

>>

>> - Andy

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