From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2007-02-16T22:21:18+09:00
Subject: Re: PDF::Writer and Unicode

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On Feb 16, 2007, at 12:59 PM, Vincent Fourmond wrote:

> Xavier Noria wrote:
>> The manual does not document if any encoding is needed for =20
>> select_font,
>> I've played around with variations of
>>
>>   # gives complete garbage
>>   pdf.select_font 'Times-Roman', :encoding =3D> 'UTF-16BE'
>>
>> without luck.
>
>   I'm not familiar with PDF::Writer, but I would be surprised if you
> really had all the glyphs for 'UTF-16BE' by default. What is the exact
> output ? Does it produce the PDF file, or it simply fails with an
> exception, or crashes ?
>
>   If a PDF file is produced (of reasonable size), would you mind =20
> posting
> it ?

Sure, it's just 4KB. This is the PDF generated by

   $KCODE =3D 'u'

   require 'rubygems'
   require 'pdf/writer'
   require 'iconv'

   str =3D Iconv.iconv('UTF-16BE', 'UTF-8', '=E1 =DF =80')
   pdf =3D PDF::Writer.new
   pdf.text str
   pdf.text "\xfe\xff#{str}"
   pdf.save_as('unicode_test.pdf')

As you see, the glyph we get wrong in this small test is the euro =20
symbol. This is important to me because not only my database in in =20
UTF-8 coming from an unrestricted UTF-8 frontend (website), but the =20
application has money here and there and needs to be able to output =20
that currency symbol.

-- fxn


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