Hi, but this seems to work not for all unicode characters like if I have "Ąžuolas"
u"Ąžuolas".encode('iso-8859-1') gives error :/ UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode characters in position 0-1: ordinal not in range(256) 2011 m. balandis 29 d., penktadienis 06:35:40 UTC+3, Alexandre Andrade rašė: > > The same can be converted to a function, to make it easier: > > def lt(str): > return unicode(str,'utf-8').encode('iso-8859-1') > > > so just > > pdf.cell(50,20,lt('Helló Wórld'), 0,2,'L') > > 2011/4/29 Christopher Steel <chris...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > >> >> This solution works well. You will need to make a minor correction and >> remove the single quotes around 'txt' in the second line. The edited >> version looks like this: >> >> txt = 'Hélló wórld' >> utxt = unicode(txt, 'utf-8') >> stxt = utxt.encode('iso-8859-1') >> pdf.cell(50,20, stxt, 0, 2, 'L') >> >> >> Thanks for the hint Bernardo! >> >> C. >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Bernardo <estem...@gmail.com> >> Date: Sep 25 2010, 7:35 am >> Subject: Solved -- Problems with special characters and pyfpdf >> To: web2py-users >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> When usingpyfpdfwhich comes with web2py framework, there are some >> issues withspecialcharacterssuch as accentedcharacters(á, é, >> í, ...). After some research, I found out thatpyfpdfjust understands >> 'iso-8859-1', and web2py gives him the strings in 'utf-8' format. >> >> So, as a solution, in your python code you just have to convert the >> string before passing it topyfpdf, like this: >> >> txt = 'Hélló wórld' >> utxt = unicode('txt', 'utf-8') >> stxt = utxt.encode('iso-8859-1') >> pdf.cell(50,20, stxt, 0, 2, 'L') >> >> If anyone has any doubts, just ask. I hope this can help someone... >> >> kind regards, >> Bernardo >> > > > > -- > Atenciosamente > > > Alexandre Andrade > Hipercenter.com Classificados Gratuitos > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.