Broken text in pdf with sphinx-build

[Beat Gurtner]

Hi,

I use sphinxy-build (Sphinx v1.6.3) on a Mac (Mojave 10.14.1) to generate a PDF in different languages.

All languages work, but polish gives me broken characters (see attachment).

They original text is stored as *.rst file (in German) and then I translate them into *.po files.

One example word which does not work is:

Treść

This is the according PO-File:

# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.

# Copyright (C) Beat Gurtner

# This file is distributed under the same license as the Dokumentation des

# Sakkadentrainers package.

# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, 2019.

#

msgid ""

msgstr ""

"Project-Id-Version: Dokumentation des Sakkadentrainers\n"

"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"

"POT-Creation-Date: 2018-07-26 14:43+0200\n"

"PO-Revision-Date: 2019-12-29 17:38+0000\n"

"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"

"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n"

"X-Poedit-SourceCharset: UTF-8\n"

"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"

"Generated-By: Babel 2.4.0\n"

"Last-Translator: \n"

"Language-Team: \n"

"Language: pl\n"

"X-Generator: Poedit 2.2.4\n"

#: ../../index.rst:7

msgid "Willkommen zur Dokumentation des Sakkadentrainers"

msgstr "Witamy w dokumentacji Sakkadycznytrener"

#: ../../index.rst:9

msgid "`Zurück zum Training <https://www.sakkadentrainer.ch>`_"

msgstr "`Powrót do treningu <https://www.sakkadentrainer.ch>`_"

#: ../../index.rst:11

msgid "Inhalt:"

msgstr "Treść:"

The command to generate the PDF is:

sphinx-build -t pl -D language=pl -b pdf /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/sakkadentrainer/doc/ /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/sakkadentrainer_medical_doc/pdf/pl/

Any help is appreciated

[Beat Gurtner]

This is the solutions. Put it into your conf.py file.

The problem is that you need a font that supports special characters.

    pdf_stylesheets = ['sphinx','kerning','a4']