I am creating PDF files when FPDF. The content is written in Traditional Chinese. So I have added a snippet :
pdf.add_font('TC', '', '/Users/yeung/Library/Fonts/TaipeiSansTCBeta-Regular.ttf', uni=True)
and when I do:
pdf.set_font('TC', '', 12)
pdf.write(8, "你好嗎？")
It successfully displays the characters, and a pdf file is successfully produced.
But a problem comes when I load an external txt file which is written in utf-8(same font as I set above TaipeiSansTCBeta-Regular). I load it with this function:
def session_body(self, name):
# Read text file
with open(name, 'r') as t:
txt = t.read()
# Times 12
self.set_font('TC', '', 12)
# Output justified text
self.multi_cell(0, 5, txt)
# Line break
self.ln()
# Mention in italics
self.set_font('TC', 'L')
self.cell(0, 5, '(end of session)')
the entire error code is as follows:
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UnicodeEncodeError Traceback (most recent call last)
/Users/yeung/01_alltime_report_final_202203/major_report.ipynb Cell 40' in <cell line: 106>()
104 pdf.print_session(1, title, f'./txt/{transaction_count_txt}.txt')
105 # pdf.print_session(2, title, f'{filename}.txt')
--> 106 pdf.output(f'./output/{title}.pdf', 'F')
107 os.remove(f'./txt/{transaction_count_txt}.txt')
108 print("PDF has been created...")
File ~/miniforge3/envs/xgboost/lib/python3.8/site-packages/fpdf/fpdf.py:1084, in FPDF.output(self, name, dest)
1081 self.error('Unable to create output file: '+name)
1082 if PY3K:
1083 # manage binary data as latin1 until PEP461 or similar is implemented
-> 1084 f.write(self.buffer.encode("latin1"))
1085 else:
1086 f.write(self.buffer)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode characters in position 90578-90591: ordinal not in range(256)
I have tried this:
pdf.set_doc_option('core_fonts_encoding', 'utf-8')
But the error says AttributeError: 'PDF' object has no attribute 'set_doc_option'. I have tried many methods, like change it to rb and rb+ instead of r. I have put # coding: utf-8 at the top of my notebook.
Would anyone please help?
