From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-01-30T03:18:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Creation of i18n PDF files (from UTF-8 encoded strings)

On 29/01/06, Karel Miarka <kajism@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have been playing with PDF::Writer for a while, but wasn't able to
> force it to display international characters correctly. I have succeed
> to display the right characters using select_font diferencies hash, but
> this results to invalid character widths which produced overlapped
> texts. I have tried to edit the provided .asf files without any
> effect/success.

PDF::Writer only supports limited I18N at this point; it will never
support UTF-8 (the underlying specification does not support UTF-8).

When Unicode support is added, it will be using UTF-16.

-austin
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