Trouble with unicode

[omerfkati]

Hi fpdf2 team,

I can't seem to get the unicode to work properly. I am generating a dutch pdf and there is text with the letters é and ë. The pdf creator does not seem to understand them.

I am using the Roboto font:
pdf.add_font("Roboto", "", r"./fonts/Roboto-Regular.ttf", uni=True)

However the same problem occurs with the Dejavu font.

I also see that the uni=True part is deprecated, but no alternative is given. How should we implement unicode then? The tutorial seems to be dated as well since it mentions uni=True. I only need those two letters really so any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Lucas-C]

I can't seem to get the unicode to work properly. I am generating a dutch pdf and there is text with the letters é and ë. The pdf creator does not seem to understand them.

Could you please provide some minimal but fully functional Python code reproducing your issue,
in order for use to be able to help you?

I also see that the uni=True part is deprecated, but no alternative is given. How should we implement unicode then?

Quoting the ChangeLog:

uni=True can now be removed from all calls to FPDF.add_font().
If the value of the fname argument passed to add_font() ends with .ttf, it is considered a TrueType font.

The tutorial seems to be dated as well since it mentions uni=True. I only need those two letters really so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry but where have you spotted any uni=True?
I haven't found any in this tutorial page: https://pyfpdf.github.io/fpdf2/Tutorial.html

[omerfkati]

I found the problem. I was not reading the file with the utf-8 encoding. Everything works now thanks for the help.

I was referring to this page:
https://pyfpdf.github.io/fpdf2/fpdf/fpdf.html#fpdf.fpdf.FPDF.add_font

But I understand now that there is no need for the uni=True option anymore. Sorry for the trouble.

[Lucas-C]

Great! Glad that it works fine for you now 😊