Re: Unicode PDF titles garbled

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> In searching about the problem people suggest that the text
>> encoding should be utf-16be and include the BOM

Yep.

> It's actually simpler than using utf-16be.  All that is needed is to
> use escape sequences instead of the accented characters.  E.g. I
> would need to use "\362" instead of "ò".

That's another encoding, PDFDocEncoding (documented in the PDF
reference).

> Unfortunately, I haven't found a scheme/guile method to create those
> escape sequences from a utf8 string (I don't even know exactly which
> escape sequences these are!  At least they are none of the usual
> utf8 representations).

I suggest to consequently use UTF-16BE (including surrogate support)
which can be easily converted from and to UTF-8.


    Werner