[reportlab-users] UTF8 Encoded Strings

[Robin Becker]

Rich Shepard wrote:

>   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

> 

I guess you need to use either a single utf8 encoded string or a single unicode 
string as input to that method. This works fine

textobject.textLine(u'This is silly!')

the textLine method has a single argument called text.
-- 
Robin Becker