Re: [Chicken-users] utf8 and pdf eggs

[Kon Lovett]

On Feb 9, 2010, at 7:55 AM, Arthur Maciel wrote:

Kon, could not understand what should I do. Could you explain me more, please?

Wish I could. PDF text references a glyph from a particular font using a particular encoding. Ex: the 'A' glyph from a Type-1 Helvetica using MacRoman. So you would need to know what glyph index 'á' is in a particular font using a particular encoding.

PDF has a different orientation than Unicode (which is font agnostic and is an encoding). Maybe it is possible to use a Unicode encoding w/ a Unicode font. You would need to dive into a PDF reference.

Sorry, I have no relevant experience here.

Thanks,
Arthur

2010/2/9 Kon Lovett <address@hidden>

On Feb 8, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Arthur Maciel wrote:

Hello!

I want to create pdf files that accept characters like "áéíóúç", and I'm using utf8 and pdf eggs. When I create the pdf files following the given examples/test files of pdf egg, requiring and importing utf8 egg, just changing any text to the characters above preceeded by a (->string ...) call, the chars appear as strange pair of characters ("áéÃ-Ã3Ãoç", respectively).'

The UTF-8 Hex of ç (U+00A7) is 0xC3A7 and

à is 0xC3

§ is 0xA7

so the string is just the UTF-8 encoding of your list of Unicode characters.

AFAIK PDF only accepts Unicode strings in restricted circumstance & then only using UTF16-BE encoding.

How can I make it work, please?
Thanks in advance.
Arthur

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Best Wishes,

Kon

Best Wishes,

Kon