wxHtmlEasyPrinting, Postscript and Encoding

David Solbach d at vidsolbach.de
Sun Mar 2 03:51:57 PST 2008


Hi there,

I'm pretty desperate with an encoding problem here.

I try to print an html file using the wxHtmlEasyPrinting class. The print 
preview looks fine and all german umlauts and the euro sign  look nice.

However, if I print the postscript to a file or a printer, the umlauts and 
special characters get screwed up (ä becomes ä, which seems to be the case 
if UTF-8 is interpreted as ISO-8859-1).

My test-html looks like this (encoded on disk in UTF-8):
---
<html>
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
  </head>
  an ae (html notation): &auml;<br>
  an ue (html notation): &uuml;<br>
  an euro sign (htmlnotation): &euro;<br>
  an ae: ä<br>
  an ue: ü<br>
  an euro sign: €<br>
</html>
---

I read this file from Disk to a wxString using wxTextFile and then print it 
with wxHtmlEasyPrinting::PreviewText(). The resulting is attached.

(as you can see, the ä is written as \303\244 which looks like UTF-8 in its 
octal representation, but the postscript file itself states, that it's 
in "/ISOLatin1Encoding" encoding?)

My Platform is linux (Kubuntu 7.10) and I use wxWidgets in version 2.8. The 
system's standard encoding should be UTF-8. And I use the -DwxUSE_UNICODE 
define.

Here is the complete compiler command line:

/usr/bin/c++ -I/usr/lib/wx/include/gtk2-unicode-debug-2.8 
-I/usr/include/wx-2.8 -pthread
-g -isystem /usr/lib/wx/include/gtk2-unicode-debug-2.8 
-isystem /usr/include/wx-2.8 
-isystem /home/david/Projects/hotelphone/-pthread 
-I/home/david/Projects/hotelphone/mainapp/../include 
-I/home/david/Projects/hotelphone/mainapp/../libcsta 
-I/home/david/Projects/hotelphone/mainapp/../libsystem
 -DwxUSE_UNICODE -D_DEBUG -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 
-D_LARGE_FILES -D__WXDEBUG__ -D__WXGTK__ -pthread -o 
mainapp/CMakeFiles/hotelphone.dir/receiptprintout.o 
-c /home/david/Projects/hotelphone/mainapp/receiptprintout.cpp

Please, help, Anyone? ;)

Cheers,

David

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