Re: [Docutils-develop] Raw FileOutput?

[Sidnei da S. <si...@x3...>]

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:17:19PM -0400, Aahz wrote:
| On Fri, May 02, 2003, Sidnei da Silva wrote:
| > 
| > Im working on a PDF Writer for docutils 
| > (http://cvs.sf.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/docutils/sandbox/dreamcatcher/) 
| > and just found a small problem. The FileOutput from docutils.io tries to 
| > encode the output as unicode, which doesnt work for me. If I write the 
| > raw PDF using Reportlabs, it works, but if I pass it to FileOutput, it 
| > converts the output to unicode, which generates a broken pdf file.
| > 
| > What do you guys suggest? Writing a RawOutput or passing a switch to 
| > FileOutput so it doesnt try to encode the output?
| 
| Have you tried setting encoding to 'ascii'?

I tried 'ascii', 'latin1', 'utf8' and none worked. The only one that
seems to work is 'unicode', which short-circuits the encode function
of docutils.io.Output to return the raw text without encoding.

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