How to print the German characters ?

[Stefano Mora]

Hi all,
very nice job!!!

How can I print texts on a PDF document and using German (or accented, in general) characters?

Do I need a Unicode version of the lib?
Or whatever?

Thanks!

[Pierre Clouthier]

I believe you can do Western European diacritics with plain ANSI (I haven't tried it).

To do Unicode, do this when you start the document:

 HPDF_Doc pdf = HPDF_New();
 HPDF_UseUTFEncodings(pdf);
 HPDF_SetCurrentEncoder(pdf, "UTF-8");

Then when you create the font:

 const char *ret = HPDF_LoadTTFontFromFile (pdf, faceName, HPDF_TRUE); // embedding  Need 'HPDF_TRUE' for UTF-8 to work
 HPDF_GetFont(pdf, ret, "UTF-8");

Convert your UCS-2 (wchar_t) to UTF8;