[OSM-talk] Yet another PDF project

Petter Reinholdtsen pere at hungry.com
Sat Jun 3 18:39:38 BST 2006


[Oliver White]
> I've put up a test script at:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/PDF-API2/Encoding
>
> That works (i.e. it generates "ø"s in the PDF) but looks wrong to me -- e.g. 
> why are we decoding utf8 instead of encoding it?

When I test it, I do not get an 'ø'.  Are you using an UTF-8 locale in
your editor?

> Is perl even guaranteed to be using utf8 internally?

I believe newer perl versions uses UTF-8 interally, and text being
read into perl need to be tagged with charset to be correctly handled
by perl.

> Why doesn't the simpler "corefont('Helvetica', -encode=>"utf8")"
> work?

No idea.  Perhaps you encode the text as UTF-8 twice?





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