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

[Robin Becker]

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

> was trying other characters and after a question mark (U+003F) produced

> black squares too. I did a search and couldn't find anything about this.

> Also tried on a CentOS 5.1 system and had the same problem. The program

> I'm porting worked fine with reportlab 1.x and CentOS 4.2. I'm either

> missing something completely obvious, or something is broke? I've made

> sure the adobe fonts are in the path searched by reportlab.

> 

> Thanks for any help.

> 

>>From my simple test program.

> 

> c.setFont("Symbol",12)

> c.drawString(100,100, u'\u0057')

> 

> Gary.

2.1 now uses either utf8 strings or unicode

-- 
Robin Becker