[reportlab-users] IronPython and UnicodeDecodeError again

[Tom T.]

Hi @ all,

I have just another problem using IronPython 2.7.1 and ReportLab 2.5. I try
to put some html-formatted text containing umlauts into the
platypus.Paragraph() function

# example 1
First I try to put the raw and unicode string into Paragraph(). The result
is an UnicodeDecodeError.

myList = []

u = 'ö'
#u = u'\u00F6'
#u = u'\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS}'

myList.append([Paragraph(u, normalStyle)])

File "C:\Programme\IronPython
2.7.1\lib\site-packages\reportlab\platypus\paragraph.py", line 60, in split
UnicodeDecodeError: ('unknown', u'\xf6', -1, 0, '')

# example 2
When I decode and encode the String it generates a PDF but the outputted
string are glyphs ('ö' in the example below).

u = u.decode('iso-8859-1').encode('utf8')
myList.append([Paragraph(u, normalStyle)])


# example 3
I also try to encode the string in ascii with the option
'xmlcharrefreplace' because Paragraph can handle html-tags. The result is
the same as in example 1.

u = u.decode('iso-8859-1').encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace')
myList.append([Paragraph(u, normalStyle)])

File "C:\Programme\IronPython
2.7.1\lib\site-packages\reportlab\platypus\flowables.py", line 89, in
_drawOn
File "C:\Programme\IronPython
2.7.1\lib\site-packages\reportlab\platypus\paragraph.py", line 868, in wrap
UnicodeDecodeError: ('unknown', u'\xf6', -1, 0, '')


Anyone knows a solution for this problem? In Python 2.7.1 I can handle
umlauts with Paragraph(). But it's no option to switch to Python. :(


Thanks a lot, Tom
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