[Koha-devel] Diacriticals, Unicode, and PDF's

2009-09-28 Thread Chris Nighswonger
Does someone have a few bibs they can shoot my way which contain lots of diacriticals and are unicode encoding? Maybe something in French or Spanish for starters. I'm working toward fixing the unicode problems with labels as a back-burner project. Kind Regards, Chris

Re: [Koha-devel] Diacriticals, Unicode, and PDF's

2009-09-28 Thread Mason James
On 2009/09/29, at 12:23 PM, Chris Nighswonger wrote: Does someone have a few bibs they can shoot my way which contain lots of diacriticals and are unicode encoding? Maybe something in French or Spanish for starters. I'm working toward fixing the unicode problems with labels as a back-burner

Re: [Koha-devel] Diacriticals, Unicode, and PDF's

2009-09-28 Thread Chris Nighswonger
Hi Mason, On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Mason James mason.loves.su...@gmail.com wrote: so - i'm curious... is there a newer/better way to get around the less-than-perfect character-conversion issues with UTF to PDF, that were discussed on the lists in the last year or so (approx) The UTF

Re: [Koha-devel] Diacriticals, Unicode, and PDF's

2009-09-28 Thread Joe Atzberger
The problem is not really with Koha, it is with the PDF format. I worked on this a while back, and concluded it will not be possible to cleanly solve without serious trade-offs: - controlling more aspects of the process, like requiring specific fonts on the user's system, or - dramatic