python pisa utf8 issue

Question

I am trying to convert a local HTML to a PDF, but the html document has non-ASCII characters that end up broken in the PDF. Why does pisa not work for all UTF-8 characters?

with open('file.html') as m:
  data = m.read()
  m.close()        
  pisa.CreatePDF(data, file('final.pdf', 'w'))

I've no experience with `pisa`, but have you ensured that your HTML has the proper character set declared? — Mattie, Aug 29 '12 at 19:53
What do they actually look like in the PDF? Can you provide a screenshot and the actual bytes producing the problems? — Wooble, Aug 29 '12 at 19:58
Maybe `pisa` wants straight unicode. Try adding `data = data.decode('UTF-8')` in there. — Keith Randall, Aug 29 '12 at 20:03
possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1637229/is-there-a-way-to-generate-pdf-containing-non-ascii-symbols-with-pisa-from-djang — yedpodtrzitko, Aug 29 '12 at 20:09
This is a screenshot of the output... http://i.imgur.com/pFKXz.png all the broken text is supposed to look like this മാഗോഗ്, മാദായി, യാവാന്‍, തൂബാല്‍, മേശെക് — user1442957, Aug 29 '12 at 20:11

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 07 '13 at 21:32

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Got it. This needs to be at the top of your generated content:

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

answered Feb 07 '13 at 21:32

Jeff T

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Helped me a lot in pdf generation from Django template. – Nick Jul 26 '19 at 04:53

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 29 '15 at 17:57

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For me it helped using the encoding option with encoding='utf-8':

pisa.CreatePDF(html.content, dest=pdfFile, encoding='utf-8')

answered Mar 29 '15 at 17:57

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