Reports - RML2PDF

[kur3k]

I create reports by means of RML(XML) and parse to PDF (use pyjon.reports).

In output pdf polish char not display

my xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no" ?>
<!DOCTYPE document SYSTEM "rml.dtd">
<document filename="encoding-test-utf8.pdf">

  <template>
    <pageTemplate id="main">
      <frame id="first" x1="72" y1="72" width="451" height="698"/>
    </pageTemplate>
  </template>

  <stylesheet>
  </stylesheet>

  <story>
    <title>Test of Encoding: UTF-8</title>
    <para>
    ą ź ś ć ł ę
    </para>
     <spacer length="1in" />
    <para>
    </para>
  </story>
</document>

My Python code,

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from rml2pdf.factory import ReportFactory


factory = ReportFactory()
factory.render_template(template_file='templates/a.xml')
factory.render_document('test.pdf')
factory.cleanup()

Now i try debug but result is not effect. ( sorry for my english )

[vegaseat]

What version of Python are you using?

[vegaseat]

If you are using Python3 you may get a bytearray rather than a string and have to decode it first ...

# tested with Python32

# string of Polish characters
mystr = "ą ź ś ć ł ę"

# encode string to <class 'bytes'> or bytearray
mybytes = mystr.encode("utf8")

# decode <class 'bytes'> to string
mystr2 = mybytes.decode("utf8")

print(mystr)
print(mybytes)
print(mystr2)

'''result ...
ą ź ś ć ł ę
b'\xc4\x85 \xc5\xba \xc5\x9b \xc4\x87 \xc5\x82 \xc4\x99'
ą ź ś ć ł ę
'''

Just a note:
The IDLE or the improved VIDLE IDE seem to handle the foreign characters properly. Some other IDE's screw this up.

[shadia.mohamed.9_1]

thanks vegaseat for clarification