Rails - Aug 2006 - Re: Prag Programmers style PDF personalization

On 8/21/06, Julian ''Julik'' Tarkhanov
<listbox-RY+snkucC20@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 20-aug-2006, at 2:22, Austin Ziegler wrote:
>> PDF::Writer doesn''t solve the Unicode problem yet.
> Which brings our Unicode discussion that once happened into new
> light :-)
> thanks for the statement
Not really. The Unicode problem for PDF support is wholly unrelated to
my stance on Unicode vs. m17n Strings. The Unicode problem for PDF
support is mostly that the PDF standards doc is a stinking pile that
is almost impossible to understand without your eyes bleeding and even
harder to implement. ;)

Most strings are written one way for normal 8-bit strings in PDF;
they''re written an entirely different way when using UTF-16BE. I just
haven''t got the output format working yet. The *only* thing that would
help me with the m17n String and PDF is that I could forcibly convert
between encoding-x and UTF-16 for output -- but a Unicode string would
leave me less able to deal with this sort of stuff nicely.

-austin
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