How to create a PDF file from a non-English (Persian) text using fpdf in Python?

Question

I want to write a Farsi text and create its 'PDF' file. I installed and used the fpdf module, but I got an error.

from fpdf import FPDF
def export_pdf():
    pdf = FPDF()
    pdf.add_page()
    pdf.set_font("Arial", size=15)
    pdf.cell(200, 10, txt='این متن فارسی است.', ln=1, align='R')
    pdf.output('output.pdf')

Error is:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode characters in position 51-53: ordinal not in range(256)

Do you have any solution?

My code:

does this help? https://pyfpdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/set_doc_option/index.html#core_fonts_encoding — Paul H, Jan 10 '23 at 15:54
You may want to look at PyMuPDF: it supports right-to-left scripts. — Jorj McKie, Jan 11 '23 at 10:08
My response is [here](https://stackoverflow.com/a/71551293/15144104). — Ali SHOKOUH ABDI, Jan 14 '23 at 14:00

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 19 '23 at 11:37

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Add #! coding: utf-8 to the beginning of the file.

answered Aug 19 '23 at 11:37

Mohammad Fatehi

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How to create a PDF file from a non-English (Persian) text using fpdf in Python?

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