Is there utf-8 support? about luahpdf HOT 3 OPEN

This project is based on libharu which unfortunately does not support utf-8. According to the documentation, it does support various character set (ISO8859-1~16, MSCP1250~8, KOI8-R) including CJK fonts and encodings.

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Unfortunatly could not find any way to set encoding, maybe it can be done by loading different fonts

I see this result on pdf
pdffonts.exe test.pdf
Config Error: No display font for 'Symbol'
Config Error: No display font for 'ZapfDingbats'

name type emb sub uni prob object ID location

Helvetica-Bold Type 1 no no no 15 0 external: C:\Windows\Fonts\arialbd.ttf
Helvetica Type 1 no no no 16 0 external: C:\Windows\Fonts\arial.ttf
Courier Type 1 no no no 17 0 external: C:\Windows\Fonts\cour.ttf
Courier-Oblique Type 1 no no no 18 0 external: C:\Windows\Fonts\couri.ttf
Helvetica-Oblique Type 1 no no no 19 0 external: C:\Windows\Fonts\ariali.ttf

No words about encoding

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The font_demo.lua examples shows how to work with the PDF native fonts, including ZapfDingbats. But I have not had luck demonstrating how to use the code page encodings. You may wish to read Encodings and Fonts in the libharu wiki. Also, I had forgotten that there is some support for Unicode and UTF-8, but unfortunately I don't have a good example that shows how to use these from a Lua script. If you have some success, please share your findings!

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