From: Kouhei Sutou Date: 2007-03-11T11:55:49+09:00 Subject: Re: PDF::Writer with UTF-8 Hi, In <1173546777.18386.1.camel@localhost> "Re: PDF::Writer with UTF-8" on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 02:13:01 +0900, Aredridel wrote: > On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 22:26 +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote: > > On 3/9/07, Daniel Finnie 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 with it? > > > > 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. > > > > 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. You can generate a PDF with UTF-8 text if you use rcairo. Thanks, -- kou