Re: print Unicode characters

How do you generate the PDF?

Most PDF writing modules in Perl don't support arbitrary Unicode characters, so it's often not as easy as just putting a Unicode character into a string (which you'd do with charnames).

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Re^2: print Unicode characters by kalyanrajsista (Scribe) on Jun 14, 2010 at 09:29 UTC
I'm generating PDF using PDF::Template module. Any suggestions please if it doesn't support Unicode characters.	[reply]
Re^3: print Unicode characters by grantm (Parson) on Jun 15, 2010 at 20:50 UTC
As I understand it, PDF's "built-in" fonts don't support Unicode characters. So for anything outside the Latin-1 range you need to embed a font. The PDF::Reuse module now supports embedding TrueType fonts and outputting non ASCII characters using Perl's internal character string format.	[reply]