ok, I'll do it.

2013/2/18 Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com>

> 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("&#62;") gives "#62;"
>>
>>
>> Maybe something should be improved...
>> Regards, Martin
>>
>>
>>
>> 2013/2/17 Massimo Di Pierro <massimo....@gmail.com>
>>
>>> 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/**pyfp**df/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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