Bring it up with Mariano, author of fpdf. ;-)

On Sunday, 17 February 2013 14:37:03 UTC-6, mweissen wrote:
>
> I have tried it now. These are my results:
>
> (1) A text like
>
>             English: Hello World
>             Greek: Γειά σου κόσμος
>             Polish: Witaj świecie
>             Portuguese: Olá mundo
>             Russian: Здравствуй, Мир
>             Vietnamese: Xin chào thế giới
>             Arabic: مرحبا العالم
>             Hebrew:  שלום עולם
>
> will be converted to pdf.
>
> (2) But there are problems with right-to-left scripts:
> שלום עולם    is written as  םלוע םולש
> مرحبا العالم   is written as ملاعلا ابحرم
>
> (3) pdf.write_html seems to work only with latin-1
> pdf.write_html("äöü") is written as "äöü", but
> pdf.write_html("äöü".decode('utf-8').encode('latin-1') gives "äöü" - as 
> expected.
>
> (4) pdf.write_html does not work with any "&...;" html-character
> pdf.write_html(">") gives "#62;"
>
>
> Maybe something should be improved...
> Regards, Martin
>
>
>
> 2013/2/17 Massimo Di Pierro <massimo....@gmail.com <javascript:>>
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>> I just upgraded to the latest pfdf version (had to make a change for 
>> compatibility). Please check it.
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, 17 February 2013 11:13:46 UTC-6, mweissen wrote:
>>>
>>>  I want to use the utf-8 character set together with pyfpdf.
>>> On 
>>> https://code.google.com/p/**pyfpdf/wiki/Unicode<https://code.google.com/p/pyfpdf/wiki/Unicode>there
>>>  is pyfpdf version 1.7, which supports utf-8.
>>> But in web2py (2.3.2) in gluon\contrib\pyfpdf  fpdf.py is version 1.54b
>>>
>>> Is there any reason not to use pyfpdf 1.7 in web2py?
>>>
>>> Regards, Martin
>>>
>>>
>>>
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