Generate pdf with unicode characters

Question

I using python + reportlab for generating pdf. But here is some problem with unicode fonts.

I need english, european and asian languages in my pdf.

But I can't find any free unicode fonts, that working with all languages.

Where is I can find it?

Thanks for your answers

Answer 1

Take a look at:

• http://archive09.linux.com/feature/52756
• http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=CharisSILfont
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_Unicode_typefaces

The short answer, based on the comments on your original question, is that you need a new font. Find a font that has all the glyphs that you want, then you will need to embed that font in the PDF document.

If you can't finding something in the links provided, let me know and I'll look more closely for you, but I suspect that you just need to poke around till you find the font that has all the glyphs you want. Short of testing the font on a set of known unicode characters to make sure you are getting the desirable font/output you want, you could also use a program like "FontForge" (as I previously suggested in a comment) to poke around to see what glyphs are mapped (and which aren't).