Character encoding issues around non-US English about pyfpdf HOT 5 OPEN

You should check your file is saved in UTF-8 (some editors doesn't handle 
encoding correctly)

año seems not to be in latin-1

Can you attach the file?

I should recommend you to use utf-8 directly, changing:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

and then

pdf.cell(ln=0, h=10.0, align='C', w=75.0, txt=u'año', border=1)

(note the u in front of the string)

Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1) should not be a problem, but you can check specific 
unicode support here:

http://code.google.com/p/pyfpdf/wiki/Unicode

Thanks for the response. Here is the error I am seeing now:

~/pyfpdf/fpdf.py:393: UnicodeWarning: Unicode equal comparison failed to 
convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal
  w += cw.get(s[i],0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "issue.py", line 20, in <module>
    pdf.output('SpanishWord.pdf', 'F')
  File "~/pyfpdf/fpdf.py", line 871, in output
    self.close()
  File "~/pyfpdf/fpdf.py", line 286, in close
    self._enddoc()
  File "~/pyfpdf/fpdf.py", line 1188, in _enddoc
    self._putpages()
  File "~/pyfpdf/fpdf.py", line 964, in _putpages
    p = zlib.compress(self.pages[n])
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf1' in position 
85: ordinal not in range(128)


I am using vim which handles file encoding well, however I may not be handling 
the encoding correctly.

Please find the file attached.

Sorry, I cannot reproduce the bug.

I tested your code and it does work (attached is the sample pdf)

Are you using the latest version 1.7.1?

I am using the 1.54b version that is in the pyfpdf zip. Running on a mac, so 
didn't pull down the win msi versions. Maybe the source version 1.7.1 will fix 
this.

Is the 1.54b zip not been updated or is the pyfpdf package different than the 
fpdf package?

Please usa at least 1.7 version

http://pyfpdf.googlecode.com/files/fpdf-1.7.zip

pyfpdf is the old package name, now you just have to import fpdf
(previous name should work, but depends on how it is intalled)

See unicode.py tutorial for a full example:

http://code.google.com/p/pyfpdf/source/browse/tutorial/unicode.py

(if you use non-latin1 chars, you will need to grab the ttf font pack)