Comments on: Working with UTF-8 in PDF::Writer and Ruby on Rails http://www.peterkrantz.com/2007/utf8-in-pdf-writer/ A blog about technology, visualization, music and unmanned vehicle experiments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:03:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Guillaume http://www.peterkrantz.com/2007/utf8-in-pdf-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-2565 Guillaume Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:25:30 +0000 http://www.peterkrantz.com/2007/utf8-in-pdf-writer/#comment-2565 Thank you very much :-) Thank you very much :-)

]]> By: fguillen http://www.peterkrantz.com/2007/utf8-in-pdf-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-2560 fguillen Thu, 28 May 2009 12:48:23 +0000 http://www.peterkrantz.com/2007/utf8-in-pdf-writer/#comment-2560 Just what I needed :).. it works! Just what I needed :).. it works!

]]> By: Stefan Kroes http://www.peterkrantz.com/2007/utf8-in-pdf-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-2455 Stefan Kroes Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:51:09 +0000 http://www.peterkrantz.com/2007/utf8-in-pdf-writer/#comment-2455 Thanks dude!! I was googling for almost half an hour before I found your article. My accented characters finally look right in my pdf document! Thanks dude!! I was googling for almost half an hour before I found your article. My accented characters finally look right in my pdf document!

]]> By: Exporting from Rails to Excel « Coding is like gardening… http://www.peterkrantz.com/2007/utf8-in-pdf-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-2454 Exporting from Rails to Excel « Coding is like gardening… Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:57:25 +0000 http://www.peterkrantz.com/2007/utf8-in-pdf-writer/#comment-2454 [...] to export data as CSV Working with UTF-8 in PDF::Writer and Ruby on Rails Iconv Ruby [...] [...] to export data as CSV Working with UTF-8 in PDF::Writer and Ruby on Rails Iconv Ruby [...]

]]> By: Ryan Heneise http://www.peterkrantz.com/2007/utf8-in-pdf-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-2450 Ryan Heneise Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:25:27 +0000 http://www.peterkrantz.com/2007/utf8-in-pdf-writer/#comment-2450 Worked for me as well - thanks for posting this solution! I'm subscribing in hopes of seeing something about your experiences with Prawn. Worked for me as well – thanks for posting this solution! I’m subscribing in hopes of seeing something about your experiences with Prawn.

]]> By: Patrick Hall http://www.peterkrantz.com/2007/utf8-in-pdf-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-2414 Patrick Hall Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:55:42 +0000 http://www.peterkrantz.com/2007/utf8-in-pdf-writer/#comment-2414 "The solution is to switch encoding back to ISO-8859-15 for text strings you feed to PDF::Writer." How is this a solution to working with UTF-8 in PDF::Writer and Rails? It's a way of *not* working with UTF-8 in PDF::Writer and Rails. “The solution is to switch encoding back to ISO-8859-15 for text strings you feed to PDF::Writer.”

How is this a solution to working with UTF-8 in PDF::Writer and Rails?

It’s a way of *not* working with UTF-8 in PDF::Writer and Rails.

]]> By: Andy http://www.peterkrantz.com/2007/utf8-in-pdf-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-2314 Andy Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:27:47 +0000 http://www.peterkrantz.com/2007/utf8-in-pdf-writer/#comment-2314 @gpm No solution, I'm re-writing using prawn. The folks around it's google group are wonderfully helpful, and I look forward to an easier syntax. Cheers @gpm

No solution, I’m re-writing using prawn. The folks around it’s google group are wonderfully helpful, and I look forward to an easier syntax. Cheers

]]> By: Rails PDF Plugin unter Rails2.1 | Code Schubser http://www.peterkrantz.com/2007/utf8-in-pdf-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-2308 Rails PDF Plugin unter Rails2.1 | Code Schubser Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:05:44 +0000 http://www.peterkrantz.com/2007/utf8-in-pdf-writer/#comment-2308 [...] übrigens im PDF Dokument mit UTF-8 arbeiten will, sollte mal bei Peter Krantz [...] [...] übrigens im PDF Dokument mit UTF-8 arbeiten will, sollte mal bei Peter Krantz [...]

]]> By: gpm http://www.peterkrantz.com/2007/utf8-in-pdf-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-2306 gpm Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:41:21 +0000 http://www.peterkrantz.com/2007/utf8-in-pdf-writer/#comment-2306 The PDF::Writer newsgroup brings this up briefly (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/ff2b849a9fc39a2b). It sounds like you need to convert to UTF-16 and specify a UxFEFF BOM before text string (or, as i understand it, the string must start with the bytes 254 then 255). I tried adding this to the solution here (http://pastie.org/252651) but it looks like the pdf is still rendering latin characters with the 254 and 255 bytes being rendered and prepended to everything. Please post if you get this working! Another alternative is to move over to prawn, which appears to support UTF-8 out of the box. The PDF::Writer newsgroup brings this up briefly (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/ff2b849a9fc39a2b). It sounds like you need to convert to UTF-16 and specify a UxFEFF BOM before text string (or, as i understand it, the string must start with the bytes 254 then 255).

I tried adding this to the solution here (http://pastie.org/252651) but it looks like the pdf is still rendering latin characters with the 254 and 255 bytes being rendered and prepended to everything.

Please post if you get this working! Another alternative is to move over to prawn, which appears to support UTF-8 out of the box.

]]> By: Andy http://www.peterkrantz.com/2007/utf8-in-pdf-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-2300 Andy Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:19:26 +0000 http://www.peterkrantz.com/2007/utf8-in-pdf-writer/#comment-2300 Are there any ideas or techniques floating around here about how to do this if one is <i><b>not</b></i> only using Latin characters with diacritics? I have japanese utf-8 that has to go into PDF::Writer. Maybe I need to learn how to manipulate strings at a lower level or understand unicode more thoroughly, but here's what I've got so far - Currently in PDF::Writer: Iconv.conv('utf-16BE', 'utf-8', 'ローラー') ==> 0í0ü0é0ü While irb: Iconv.conv('utf-16BE', 'utf-8', 'ローラー') ==> "0\3550\3740\3510\374" Are there any ideas or techniques floating around here about how to do this if one is not only using Latin characters with diacritics? I have japanese utf-8 that has to go into PDF::Writer. Maybe I need to learn how to manipulate strings at a lower level or understand unicode more thoroughly, but here’s what I’ve got so far –

Currently in PDF::Writer:
Iconv.conv(‘utf-16BE’, ‘utf-8′, ‘ローラー’) ==> 0í0ü0é0ü

While irb:
Iconv.conv(‘utf-16BE’, ‘utf-8′, ‘ローラー’) ==> “0\3550\3740\3510\374″

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