From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2007-03-11T02:13:01+09:00
Subject: Re: PDF::Writer with UTF-8

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On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 22:26 +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On 3/9/07, Daniel Finnie <danfinnie@optonline.net> wrote:
> > I have searched and searched and came up with nothing about the
> > /current/ state of UTF-8 with PDF-Writer.  Has any one had any luck wit=
h it?
>=20
> Then you haven't searched enough. I'm sorry to be so blunt, but I have
> been consistent and clear: PDF::Writer does not and will NEVER support
> UTF-8 natively. Why? Because the PDF specification does not support
> UTF-8.
>=20
> So, forget about using UTF-8. Period. I will never provide support for
> it. (In Ruby 1.9, this may be alleviated by the use of m17n strings,
> but I'm not going out of my way to support UTF-8; when I add unicode
> support, it will be UTF-16 only).

I'd suggest supporting UTF-8 and handling conversion internally, rather
than making users scatter Iconv calls everywhere, since UTF-8 is rather
the norm on the internet. Better to do it internally, especially since
the conversion between UTF-8 and UTF-16 is perfect in both directions.

Aria

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