[reportlab-users] Text with multiple languages.

Tim Butram atrus6 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 26 15:48:36 EDT 2014


Unfortunately, I found that generating pdfs with multiple languages was too
difficult, and moved to using HTML and utf-8.

A web/browser based solution worked really well for me.
On Oct 26, 2014 12:15 AM, "Steve Young" <wereapwhatwesow at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Tim, I am working on a project with similar needs as you mentioned.  If
> you found answers would you mind sharing?
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Thursday, July 31, 2014 2:37:08 PM UTC-5, Tim Butram wrote:
>>
>> I'm generating a document that has a wide varity of languages, from
>> Arabic to English to Chinese. Unfortunatly, I'm unable to find a single
>> font that will allow me to print such a varity of characters. Additionally,
>> I don't have previous knowledge of what language the String I'm trying to
>> print out which makes it difficult to switch fonts based on the contents of
>> the text.
>>
>> What are some solutions to this problem?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tim
>>
>
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