RE: FN-FORUM: Japanese encoding/charsets in RTF files

date posted 21st March 2006 11:24


Thanks Graeme

I will give the below a try, the HTML is already being sent to the client as
UTF-8 but it seems to get lost in translation as the RTF is generated, its
already crossed my mind to use PDF instead, its just that the RTF generator
I use makes it super simple to convert from HTML to RTF on the fly.

Will let you know the results as soon as I get round to looking at it

Regards
Ash

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Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: Japanese encoding/charsets in RTF files


On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, ashley etchell wrote:

> Is there a way to pass the RTF doc through something else once its created
> to convert the text into UTF-8?

Don't know.

According to the 1.6 spec

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnrtfspec/h
tml/rtfspec.asp

you can embed Unicode in the document by just escaping it.

You can use http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php to map
Shift_JIS to UTF-8.

If the RTF generator can't cope with the UTF-8 then I'd look at first
getting a UTF-8 encoded html page working and see if transforming it to
another format, say PDF, is acceptable to the client.

Or maybe with something like this

http://phpdocwriter.sourceforge.net/

and using openoffice programmatically to generate the final format?

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