[reportlab-users] UTF8 Encoded Strings

[Rich Shepard]

   How do I configure ReportLab to handle UTF8 strings in textobjects?

   My data look like this tuple: (u'Jobs', u'Infrastructure'), and when I try
to print them using this for loop

 	  for pairs in pairData:
 	    textobject.textLine(pairs)
 	  pg.drawText(textobject)

this error is returned:

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "learnRL.py", line 80, in ?
     econRun()
   File "learnRL.py", line 70, in econRun
     textobject.textLine(pairs)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/reportlab/pdfgen/textobject.py",
line 372, in textLine
     self._code.append('%s T*' % self._formatText(text))
   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/reportlab/pdfgen/textobject.py",
line 333, in _formatText
     text = text.decode('utf8')
AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'decode'

   Do I need to explicitly convert the list of tuples before feeding them to
ReportLab?

Rich

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