This is the solutions. Put it into your conf.py file. The problem is that you need a font that supports special characters.
pdf_stylesheets = ['sphinx','kerning','a4'] On Tuesday, January 7, 2020 at 11:50:16 AM UTC+1, Beat Gurtner wrote: > > Hi, > > I use sphinxy-build (Sphinx v1.6.3) on a Mac (Mojave 10.14.1) to generate > a PDF in different languages. > > All languages work, but polish gives me broken characters (see attachment). > > They original text is stored as *.rst file (in German) and then I > translate them into *.po files. > > One example word which does not work is: > Treść > > This is the according PO-File: > > # SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE. > # Copyright (C) Beat Gurtner > # This file is distributed under the same license as the Dokumentation des > # Sakkadentrainers package. > # FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, 2019. > # > msgid "" > msgstr "" > "Project-Id-Version: Dokumentation des Sakkadentrainers\n" > "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n" > "POT-Creation-Date: 2018-07-26 14:43+0200\n" > "PO-Revision-Date: 2019-12-29 17:38+0000\n" > "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" > "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n" > "X-Poedit-SourceCharset: UTF-8\n" > "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" > "Generated-By: Babel 2.4.0\n" > "Last-Translator: \n" > "Language-Team: \n" > "Language: pl\n" > "X-Generator: Poedit 2.2.4\n" > > #: ../../index.rst:7 > msgid "Willkommen zur Dokumentation des Sakkadentrainers" > msgstr "Witamy w dokumentacji Sakkadycznytrener" > > #: ../../index.rst:9 > msgid "`Zurück zum Training <https://www.sakkadentrainer.ch>`_" > msgstr "`Powrót do treningu <https://www.sakkadentrainer.ch>`_" > > #: ../../index.rst:11 > msgid "Inhalt:" > msgstr "Treść:" > > > > > > The command to generate the PDF is: > > sphinx-build -t pl -D language=pl -b pdf > /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/sakkadentrainer/doc/ > /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/sakkadentrainer_medical_doc/pdf/pl/ > > > > > Any help is appreciated > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sphinx-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sphinx-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sphinx-users/7fdbc585-f88b-45cf-96ce-b21185b6fc35%40googlegroups.com.