[reportlab-users] Reportlab 2.1 "Symbol" font problem on FC8

[Paul Barrass]

Gary Nutbeam wrote:

> I'm using Fedora Core 8 and Reportlab 2.1. When I try and print an Omega

> (unicode 0057 or Decimal 87) I get a black square. It's odd because I

>

>   

\u0057 appears to be 'W' (which is probably not present in the Symbol 
font), not omega - have you tried \u03A9?  If that doesn't work, see 
http://two.pairlist.net/pipermail/reportlab-users/2008-August/007124.html

Versions of RL before 2.0 didn't use Unicode, so that may explain the 
different behaviour.

Paul Barrass