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Apache FOP Displaying ### with SimSun

June 15, 2022 by Tarik

Three steps must be taken for chinese characters to correctly show in a PDF file created with FOP (this is also true for all characters not available in the default font, and more generally to use a non-default font). Let us use this simple fo example to show the warnings produced by FOP when something … Read more

How to fix: “UnicodeDecodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte”

May 1, 2022 by Tarik

tl;dr / quick fix Don’t decode/encode willy nilly Don’t assume your strings are UTF-8 encoded Try to convert strings to Unicode strings as soon as possible in your code Fix your locale: How to solve UnicodeDecodeError in Python 3.6? Don’t be tempted to use quick reload hacks Unicode Zen in Python 2.x – The Long … Read more