[reportlab-users] Unicode character Eclipse IDE vs. MS VisualStudio 2012

[Robin Becker]

On 17/01/2013 09:37, Tom Py wrote:
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> min. example begin

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> # -*- coding: latin-1 -*-

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> from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas

> from reportlab.platypus import Table

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> str = [['ü']]

> myCanvas = canvas.Canvas("test.pdf")

> tableData = Table(str)

> tableData.wrapOn(myCanvas, 0, 0)

> tableData.drawOn(myCanvas, 0, 0)

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> myCanvas.getpdfdata()

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> print 'done'

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> min. example end

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> I'm using IronPython 2.7.2 and ReportLab 2.5

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> Does anyone have an idea?

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> Thx, Tom

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CPython reportlab supports unicode or utf8 encodings so you could try

str = [[u'ü']]


or

str = [[u'ü'.encode('utf8')]]

you seem to be using latin-1 so that's where the error comes from
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Robin Becker