Re: Unicode PDF titles garbled

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Sonntag 06 Februar 2011, 18:40:32 schrieb Reinhold Kainhofer:
> > > 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".
[...]
> > > 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.
> 
> How can I do this in guile? A Google search didn't return any useful
> results (except a proposal from years ago).

I've now properly implemented Latin1 and Unicode PDF metadata encoding. Patch 
is up for review at:

http://codereview.appspot.com/4398046/

Cheers,
Reinhold
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