From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-12-03T00:27:10+09:00
Subject: Re: PDF::Writer and unicode

On 12/2/06, Simon Kr�ger <SimonKroeger@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi!
> Ok, I know there is (or was) no easy way to do that, but the PDF::Writer doc says:
>
>   If all of the conditions are correct, the following code
>   should display the Japanese characters[...]
>
>   pdf.text("\xfe\xff\x65\xe5\x67\x2c\x8a\x9e")
>
> Well obviously not all conditions are correct in my environment, i don't see
> any Japanese character, i get "��e�g,��" (if my newsgroup client gets it right).

Yes. You won't, either. The PDF::Writer document is incorrect; I
understand the reason why it won't, but I haven't been able to
implement it as of yet. There's a bit of wedding-related stuff for me
to clean up, but I should be able to get UTF-16 working sometime in
2007.

-austin
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