From: Kouhei Sutou <kou@...>
Date: 2006-12-03T20:39:18+09:00
Subject: Re: PDF::Writer and unicode

Hi,

In <eks395$ld$1@online.de>
  "PDF::Writer and unicode" on Sat, 2 Dec 2006 23:45:08 +0900,
  Simon Kröger <SimonKroeger@gmx.de> wrote:

> 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 "þÿeåg,Šž" (if my newsgroup client gets it right).
> 
> All i need are three special chars: ş ğ and ç
> 
> Is there any way to create a pdf document with these chars using PDF::Writer?

You can do the thing if you use Pango and cairo (Ruby/Pango
and rcairo).

Thanks,
--
kou