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If your data is not encoded as UTF8, you will get a UnicodeDecodeError as
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soon as you feed in a non-ASCII character. For example, this snippet below is
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heading2("Changing the built-in fonts output encoding")
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heading2("Automatic output font substitution")
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There are still a number of places in the code, including the rl_config
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defaultEncoding parameter, and arguments passed to various Font constructors.
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These generally relate to the OUTPUT encoding used when we write data in the font
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file. This affects which characters are actually available in the font if
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you are using Type 1 fonts, since only 256 glyphs can be available at
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MacRoman or MacExpert encoding characters, we advise you to ignore
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this. By default the standard fonts (Helvetica, Courier, Times Roman)
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character using the built-in Helvetica, you'll see a rectangle or blob.
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defaultEncoding parameter, and arguments passed to various Font constructors,
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which refer to encodings. These were useful in the past when people needed to
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use glyphs in the Symbol and ZapfDingbats fonts which are supported by PDF
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will offer the glyphs available in Latin-1. However, if our engine detects
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a character not in the font, it will attempt to switch to Symbol or ZapfDingbats to
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display these. For example, if you include the Unicode character for a pair of
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right-facing scissors, \\u2702, in a call to ^drawString^, you should see them (there is
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registerFontFamily('Vera',normal='Vera',bold='VeraBd',italic='VeraIt',boldItalic='VeraBI')
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disc("""Before using the TT Fonts in Platypus we should add a mapping from the family name to the
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individual font names that describe the behaviour under the $<b>$ and $<i>$ attributes.""")
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individual font names that describe the behaviour under the $<b>$ and $<i>$ attributes.""")
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