How to display chinese characters ?

[toplinuxsir]

How to display chinese characters ?
Should I use cp1252.map ?
Thanks !

[jung-kurt]

Unfortunately, gofpdf doesn't currently support Chinese, Korean and Japanese fonts since it is restricted to using code pages that have a maximum of 256 characters.

Code page 1252 contains only western characters so it won't help here.

You may want to take a look at gopdf. It now supports Unicode font subsetting.

[toplinuxsir]

I think gofpdf is great , any plan to support Asian characters ?

[jung-kurt]

I definitely want to Asian characters. Any help in that regard will be greatly appreciated!

[thinkingdyw]

when to support Chinese？

[jung-kurt]

I recently exchanged emails with a company that planned to implement full Unicode support for gofdpf, but I am not sure if it will contribute its changes to the project or when that task will be complete.

[marcus-downing]

That would be impressive, and useful. PDF has a shaky and complicated relationship with Unicode, so it's not a simple question. I'd be interested in hearing how they plan to address eg font subsetting?

[jung-kurt]

Does font subsetting imply that a stripped-down font file is always embedded in the PDF?

[marcus-downing]

If it's a non-standard font, yes. And languages other than English are likely to use non-standard fonts.

One of the hurdles facing my (stalled) attempt to port FPDI was the need to merge font subsets, and deal with code pages. I never really had an answer to that, that wasn't huge amounts of work.

[jung-kurt]

Thanks, @marcusatbang -- I hope we can tackle this someday.